#animal

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#bluff #cowards #eye #liable #like

Especially if it's a wild animal, I find the readers are intrigued. And if your reader's intrigued right away, you've won half the battle of telling a story." ↗

— Yann Martel

#away #battle #especially #find #half

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#black #cat #crossing #going #path

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. ↗

— Karl Marx

#being #gregarious #human #human being #itself

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal. ↗

— Brian May

#belief #creativity #crises #every #few

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#brought #essential #living #own #quality

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#absolute #animal #i #i think #interesting

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#indeed #terrible #unbridled #woman

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#animal #bodies #chemistry #govern #inorganic

Every animal is a tradition, and together they are a vast part of our heritage as human beings. No animal completely lacks humanity, yet no person is ever completely human. By ourselves, we people are simply balls of protoplasm. We merge with animals through magic, metaphor, or fantasy, growing their fangs and putting on their feathers. Then we become funny or tragic; we can be loved, hated, pitied, and admired. For us, animals are all the strange, beautiful, pitiable, and frightening things that they have ever been: gods, slaves, totems, sages, tricksters, devils, clowns, companions, lovers, and far more. ↗

— Boria Sax

#traditions #beauty