Pet Quotes - Page 10

• Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

  Mae West

  Men

  "Fictional character: Ruby Carter". "Belle of the Nineties", www.imdb.com. 1934.

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• If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.

  Karl Popper

  Looks, Favors, Want

  Karl Popper (2013). “The Poverty of Historicism”, p.124, Routledge

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• Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Suffering, Thee

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• I'm the best animal lover in the world. There's nobody who takes care of their pets like me...... they are my children.

  Paris Hilton

  Children, Animal, World

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• When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything.

  James Gunn

  Kids, Race, Water

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Kids, Littles, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

  John D. Voelker

  Winning, Persistence, Sea

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• Millions of Americans own dogs, because they are good-natured, simple, and easily amused. I am referring here to the Americans. The dogs are not exactly Mensa members either, but they definitely make better pets than tropical fish.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Simple, Rivers

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• It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Dog, Athlete

  "Jesse Owens: Champion Athlete". Book by Tony Gentry, Heather Lehr Wagner, 2009.

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• One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.

  Jonathan Yardley

  Sincerity, Conviction, Theory

  "David Halberstam". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Fans believe they have a relationship with you, either through your TV character or, more reasonably, through the tweets you may have exchanged. In a way, you have gotten to know them. You learn about people's kids, families, pets.

  Gina Bellman

  Believe, Character, Kids

  "Gina Bellman on Leverage: 'Fandom is a world with no prejudice'". www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2013.

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• Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

  Lori Foster

  Children, Eye, Focus

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• Miracle is the pet child of faith.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Miracle

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1859). “Faust: A Dramatic Poem”, p.51

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• One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  One Day, Warning, Next

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.102, BookBaby

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• Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mother, Dream, Law

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• I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Python, Television, Phases

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.161, Faber & Faber

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• Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.

  Ellen Goodman

  Numbers, Energy, Machines

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• What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.

  Marya Mannes

  Men, Ideas, Opinion

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Men

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• ... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

  Phyllis Bottome

  Support, Degrade

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.13, Northwestern University Press

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• I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, House, Want

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• Call me names, dearest! Call me thy bird
  That flies to thy breast at one cherishing word,
  That folds its wild wings there, ne'er dreaming of flight,
  That tenderly sings there in loving delight!
  Oh! my sad heart keeps pining for one fond word,--
  Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Dream, Heart, Names

  Frances Sargent OSGOOD, Felix Octavius Carr DARLEY (1850). “Poems ... Illustrated by ... Darley, etc”, p.365

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• Women if you want to realise yourselves - you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval - all your pet illusions must be unmasked - the lies of centuries have got to go - are you prepared for the Wrench?

  Mina Loy

  Lying, Upheaval, Want

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• the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

  Betsy Byars

  Growing Up, Real, Adults

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• Indians still consider the whites a brutal people who treat their children like enemies - playthings, too, coddling them like pampered pets or fragile toys, but underneath always like enemies, enemies that must be restrained, bribed, spied upon, and punished. They believe that children so treated will grow up as dependent and immature as pets and toys, and as angry and dangerous as enemies within the family circle, to be appeased and fought.

  Mari Sandoz

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

  Mari Sandoz (1959). “Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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