“These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.” NeedsDifferentAnimalSituationWeakStartingFringeHerdsSnacksDifferent Animals Author:Tim Dorsey
“Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.” GivingBelieveDoePainSpiritAnimalFailingPleaseWeakFacultyVegetablesPerfumeBoastFragranceReviveOffendingGood HumorGaiety Author:Samuel Johnson
“Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.” MenChildrenDifferentImaginationAnimalCreativeIntellectualMen And WomenWeakIntellectActiveFormerFancyLatterFacultyPossessedPassiveGreat Imagination Book:Pensées of Joubert Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.” WorldHumansAnimalTerribleWeakInsultContradictionDominantPerversion Author:Muriel Barbery
“I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing], and while I keep mine within due bounds and limits, nobody, I flatter myself, would wish to deprive me of the poor animal: to be sure, he is not formed for labour, and is rather lame and weak, but then the dear creature is faithful, constant, and loving, and though he sometimes prances, would not kick anyone into the mire, or hurt a single soul for the world--and I would not part with him for one who could win the greatest prize that ever was won at any races.” WorldWritingSoulSometimesWinningWishHurtAnimalPoorRaceMinesCreaturesLimitsWeakHorseConstantBoundsDearDuesSuperiorsFaithfulKicksLabourPrizeHobbiesJournalLameJournal Writing Author:Fanny Burney
“If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short, very pretty, very weak! That means we are not well equipped to be aggressive beings. Even the size of our mouth is very small. So I think the basic nature of human beings should be gentle.” IfsThinkingShouldHumansWellsMeanHas BeensBornHuman BeingsAnimalHuman NatureHugeMouthsWeakSizeTeethGentleAggressiveClaws Author:Dalai Lama