#ria

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial. ↗

— Sydney Biddle Barrows

#hear #mother #never #phone #say

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. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#behavior #compassion #suffer #vegetarian #experience

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #cannot #creatures #eat #feel

Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#experience

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#action #clearer #ebb #error #fear

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie. ↗

— Lukas Haas

#done #i #material #me #movie

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#had #her #husband #marriage #mother

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#different #drawn #expect #explore #material

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#hysteria #i #pleasure #terror

There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it. ↗

— Michael Bay

#chain #example #for example #geriatric #gravitate