#fish

He shakes his head. "They're hunting the Enkis. I know that. And I get that. But . . . we're special." "The reason they want them is because they're special. Anchovies aren't going to cure anyone." "That's not the special I mean." He catches another fish and hugs it to his chest. I'm trying to be gentle. "They're only special to you because they're yours." "I could say the same thing about that cute kid you were holding." Well, shit. ↗

— Hannah Moskowitz

#specialness #value-of-life #life

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge. ↗

— Blake Shelton

#basically #call #company #deer #down

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#catfish #electric #i #i am #pool

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ↗

— Adam Smith

#benevolent #constitute #exercise #feel #human

I'm selfish. ↗

— Kendrick Lamar

#selfish

There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing. ↗

— Martha Smith

#come #different #different types #fishermen #groups

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#bless #especially #fish #float #i

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish. ↗

— Sam Snead

#could #ever #first #fish #golf

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#because #comfortable #course #difficult #easiest

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl. ↗

— Princess Margaret

#goldfish #i #much #privacy