“I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.” PeopleThinkingWayMindHumansJoyChoicesAnimalStruggleRegretNavigateHuman Animal Author:Victor Salva
“I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.” DifferentStoriesBigsWantedGuyAnimalRegretProudLosingBoxesExcitedScreensSomething NewSerenityGood StoryFireflyBig ScreenDifferent Animals Author:Joss Whedon
“I wish I could do it again, only I wish I could take all of the animals out of the environmental fur farm ... I have absolutely no regrets, and I hope the same thing continues to happen at MSU and every other college campus that does animal research.” DoeHappensWishAnimalCollegeRegretResearchEnvironmentalFarmsFurNo RegretsCampusCollege CampusAnimal Research Author:Rod Coronado
“Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.” IfsFeelsHumansPainSufferingAnimalCompassionToo MuchRegretEssentialsBehaviorGuiltExperimentsBehaveDistinctionVegetarianPretendingVeganAnimal RightsPretensionHumans And AnimalsAnimal BehaviorAnimal Suffering Author:Carl Sagan
“Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the other; and why does he further feel that he ought to regret his conduct? Man in this respect differs profoundly from the lower animals.” MenFeelsMayDoeScienceNaturalAnimalEmotionalRegretOughtImpulseEndeavour Book:On the Origin of Species Source: On the Origin of Species
“There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students were even better. In the old days, if you offered a graduate student a thiamine-deficient diet, he gladly went on it, for that was the only way he could eat. Science is getting to be more and more difficult.” IfsWayLooksScienceDifficultAnimalStudentsRegretPeriodsDifficultyMedicalExperimentsGoldenDietsGraduatesOld DaysGraduate Students Author:George Wald
“I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature's way of fang and claw and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow.” IfsWayWellsI CanJoyGamesAnimalFateRegretCreaturesKillingTargetHuntingPursuedStarvationFangsClawsLiving Creatures Author:Fred Bear
“My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not enough...I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee. More gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog.” WorldWritingStillsBookEnoughRealityEyeFacesHumanityNatureMy OwnAnimalEmotionDogInformationRegretPerceivePetCarrieBeesMiceBrutesI RegretThrough The EyesAnimals In Nature Author:C. S. Lewis
“Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.” ThinkingKnowsMenNeedsHumansPastAnimalTearsRegretAmountBenefitsOverwhelmingVeilsLive In The PresentNapsAlways ThinkingThinking About The Future Author:Townes Van Zandt
“The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.” HumansAnimalStruggleSeaLandRegretLongingMereAncientHuman Animal Book:The Secret Scripture Source: The Secret Scripture