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“Oh, yeah. I fish. Yeah, sure... I enjoy pointlessly tearing apart a fishes face with an unsanitary hook, dragging them out of the only place they know and feel safe to suffocate them for a time that seems appropriate to little old me, only to toss them back into the water terrified, wounded, and potentially in the throws of cardiac arrest, or worse yet, leave them to choke to death on the air they cannot breathe, so that I can add them to the rest of my unhealthy, uncompassionate meal that I will shove down my chubby little face tonight.... Sure... I fish.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we’d all be vegetarians.” (Linda McCartney)“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” (Leonardo Da Vinci)“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” (Mark Twain) “The pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself w/him and, not only will he not scold you, but hell make a fool of himself, too.” (unknown)"Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?" (Marianne Moore)"Every animal knows more than you do." (Native American Proverb)"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." (George Eliot)"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." (Mark Twain)"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." (Anatole France)"My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am." (Unknown)“Whatever you ate before that you loved, like turkey slices, they’ve got a substitute now that’s not hard to find.” (Wu Tang Clan’s Masta Killa)“It may take a while, but there will probably come a time when we look back and say, “Good Lord, do you believe that in the 20th Century and early part of the 21st, people were still eating animals?” (Mary Tyler Moore)“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. It’s staggering when you think about it. Vegeterianism takes care of so many things in one shot." (Sir Paul McCartney)“Imagine living in a cage in the dark, unable to move, day after day. The suffering of today’s American farm animals is almost beyond belief. They don’t have a choice, but you do, and their lives depend on it.” (Casey Affleck)“Chicken, pigs, and other animals - they are interesting individuals with personalities and intelligence. What people need to understand is that if they’re eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.” (Pamela Anderson)
“Animal rights is a part of my every day life. When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine, people I have never discussed animal rights or vegetarianism with, are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it.” (Joaquin Phoenix)
“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” (St. Francis of Assisi)
“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” (Arthur Schopenhauer)
“I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.” (Abraham Lincoln,in response to friends who chided him for delaying them by stopping to return a fledgling to it’s nest)
“To inflict cruelties on defenseless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society: Reverence for live.” (Dr. Jon Evans)
"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages." (Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien)
"Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are like us.' Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are not like us.' Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction." (Charles R. Magel)
"From beasts we scorn as soulless,
In forest, field and den,
The cry goes up to witness
The soullessness of men."
(M. Frida Hartley)
"The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?' (Jeremy Bentham)
"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." (Abraham Lincoln)
"Never wear anything that panics the cat." (P.J. O'Rourke)
"Support your right to arm bears." (Cleveland Amory)
"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." (Albert Schweitzer)
"Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game." (Paul Rodriguez)
"Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anticruelty laws." (U.S. News & World Report, 6 December 1999)
"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her." (Ellen DeGeneres)
"If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?" (Unknown)
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men." (Alice Walker)
"As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right." (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
"When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning." (Marv Levy)
"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions." (Mark Twain)
Lisa: "Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?"
Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness."
(Matt Groening, The Simpsons)
"Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain." (Mark Twain)
"I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence." (Mahatma Gandhi)
"I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures." (Christian Barnard, Surgeon)
"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar." (Bradley Millar)
"When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." (Ingrid Newkirk)
"The life spark in my eyes is in no way different than the life spark in the eyes of any other sentient being." (Michael Stepaniak)
"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car." (Harvey Diamond)
"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. " (George Bernard Shaw)
"If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch." (K.D. Lang)
"My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small travelling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honour of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures." (George Bernard Shaw)
"I did not become a vegetarian for my health. I did it for the health of the chickens." (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
"Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal." (Ingrid Newkirk)
"I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me. " (Alex Poulos)
“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.” (Leonardo da Vinci)
"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?" (George Bernard Shaw)
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." (Albert Einstein)
"I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb." (Vaslav Nijinsky)
Realationships, Love, Heartache Quotes:
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"Our Love Budded as a Fairytale and Will Blossom into a Legend." (Kimberly S. Desio)
“You are the only thing my heart could ever desire. I'd do anything for you - I'd walk through fire; and if I did, I would cherish the scars that would remind me I walked with an Angel under the stars.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“You know that you have found your true love not because your insides melted on that very first time you looked into his eyes; but because your insides continue to melt when you look into his eyes. That's how you know a love is true, not because you fell in love at first sight, but because you still fall in love over and over again.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“The saddest words of tongue or pen are the words: What might have been.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“Embrace me, darling, with all the fiery passion of the past. Bless me with lingering kisses over my flesh. Ravish me with a love that lasts; and, at the break of dawn's first ray, we can again be reborn.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“Lately, you've been on my mind, intertwined with everyday thoughts - hijacking my dreams, and it seems that you've overtaken me...” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“Take me back in time; put me on a high; blow my mind; teach my heart to fly.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“Close my eyes to the world. No one cared anyway. Open my eyes - it’s you, come to take me away. Save me, Superman, from all that I am.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
"You are My Superman - You Keep Me Safe. I am Your Kryptonite - I Make You Weak. I Touch You and You are My Wall. You Touch Me and Go to Pieces. Only I Can Melt This Man of Steel.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“Come sweep me off my feet. Baby, bless me with kisses sweet. Maybe, you could breathe softly in my ear. Whisper the words I want to hear. Let your hands run over my skin, and you're eyes, too, taking me in. a.n.t.i.c.i.p.a.t.i.o.n. ReVeRbErAtIoN... ... ....” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“Still waiting for words that I just might never hear. Still fighting an endless fear. Still praying that you might wake up. Still trying not to break up.” (jKimberly S. Desio)
“You’re like drugs or alcohol or any other vice: You are so bad for my health but, God, I just can’t resist the temptation!” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“Through the Chaos of My Mind, I See Your Face. Above the Persistent Cries of Pain, I Hear Your Voice. When I am Beyond All Hope, I Still Find You.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
"You have to decide if the possibility of change is worth the probability of a seriously broken heart." (Kimberly S. Desio)
“When your story is told, and it will be, in song and fable and interpretive dance and puppet shows, people will weep with joy and through their sobs say, ‘Today, we have witnessed greatness. How can our lives not be bettered by this?’” (Erik Buckholz)
“It seems a little sad, really, that I was the girl whose sole purpose was to allow you to figure out who you were in love with.” (Jen,
“When I saw you going for Jen's hand, I mean it's not like I wanted to be the one holding your hand. I just didn't want her holding it.” (Joey,
"To continue to love somebody when there's no promise of that love ever thriving, that is romance." (Joey,
"That first kiss, it's the passionate one. It's the one filled by desire and attraction, and all of that, but the second kiss is rational. You got time to worry, and over analyze and most women... they prefer that first kiss, but I'm partial to the second one because it's about something more.” (Bessie,
“JOEY: So we were friends, then we were a couple, then we were friends again, then we were a couple... what are we now?
JOEY: You think every Joey has a
"It's not about the right time or the right place,
“You and I are meant to be together. Period. The end. Cue happy-ending music.” (Dawson,
"There was something inexpressively broken in my heart." (Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums)
“Table talk and lovers’ talk are equally elusive; lovers’ talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.” (Les Miserables: Fantine: Book Three, In the Year 1817 - Chapter VI, A Chapter of Self-Admiration)
“Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.” (Invisible Monsters: Chapter 1)
“Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I’ll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.” (Invisible Monsters: Chapter 20)
"I like your pants around your feet, and I like the dirt that's on your knees, and I like the way you still say please while you're looking up at me. You're like my favorite damn disease." (Nickelback: "Figured You Out")
"...and I love your lack of self respect while you're passed out on the deck. I love my hands around your neck." (Nickelback: "Figured You Out")
“I don't know what's worth fighting for, or why I have to scream. I don't know why I instigate, and say what I don't mean. I don't know how I got this way. I know it's not alright. So I'm breaking the habit, I'm breaking the habit, tonight.” (Linkin Park: “Breaking the Habit”)
“I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut. My weakness is that I care too much. My scars remind me that the past is real. I tear my heart open just to feel.” (Papa Roach: “Scars”)
“’Cause I can’t seem to show you what you wanna see. I can never give you anything you need. I’m sick of wasting time on what can never be. I cannot control you into wanting me.” (Seether: “Your Bore”)
"My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me. So, won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury, or wear as jewelry, which ever you prefer." (Dashboard Confessional: "Hands Down")
“You're all I've got. You lift me up. The sun and moonlight, all my dreams are in your eyes; and I wanna be inside your heaven. Take me to the place you cry from when the storm blows your way. I wanna be the earth to hold you, every bit of air you're breathing in, a soothing wind. I wanna be inside your heaven.” (Carrie Underwood: “Inside Your Heaven”)
“He smiled & I thought my heart could fly. Diary, do you think that we’ll be more than friends? I’ve got a feeling we’ll be so much more.” (Britney Spears)
“When I'm with you I feel like I could die and that would be alright, alright." (Third Eye Blind)
“Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.” (Helen Rowland)
"Life's so sweet right here in the passenger seat. Oh, yeah life's so sweet when I look to my left, see his suntanned hands, his muddy river hair, and his thousand-acre plans. I'm all shook up like a quarter in a can. Ain't life sweet in the passenger seat?" (SheDaisy)
“What is it with guys and their emotions? The closer you get to them, the more they try to keep everything in.” (Smallville: Lana Lang)
"'A living poem' had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describer her to others." (The Notebook:
“You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Allie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.” (The Notebook: Swans and Storms)
“She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I’m sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.” (The Notebook: Winter for Two)
“Our souls were one, if you must know/ and never shall they be apart;/ With splendid dawn, your face aglow/ I reach for you and find my heart.” (The Notebook: Winter for Two)
"You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together. You have something inside of you, Noah, something beautiful and strong.” (The Notebook: Winter for Two)
"Love is the most durable power in the world." (Martin Luther King Jr.)
“I want to spend the rest of my life with You... Yes, my conscience and my body need You. Everything I’ll ever be needs You." (Anne Rice)
"The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. Those two elements always go together." (Nights in Rodanthe: Chapter fourteen)
"Love me without fear. Trust me without questioning. Need me without demanding. Want me without restrictions. Accept me without change. Desire me without inhibitions." (Dick Sutphen)
"I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again. My life seems to stop there, I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving. I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion... I have shudder'd at it... I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion: Love is my religion. I could die for that. I could die for you. My creed is love, and you are its only tenet. You have ravish'd me away by a power I cannot resist." (A Letter Written by John Keats)
“Days turned in to weeks, weeks turned into months; and then on one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter and sat down, and I wrote our story - a story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people, but most of all, a story about love, a love that will live forever. The end.” (Moulin Rouge, Christian)
“Then, I'll write a song, and we'll put it in the show; and whenever you sing it or hear it, or whistle or hum it then you'll know. It'll mean that we love one another.” (Moulin Rouge, Christian)
“Tell me what we got, tell me it’s a lot. Tell me it’s the real thing. Tell me not to change, and always be the same. Tell me that’s a good thing - it’s a good thing. Tell me not to lie. Tell me not to wait. Tell me that you want the same things as me. Tell me that it’s fate, driving me insane. Tell me it’s the real thing, that keeps me hanging on.” (Bo Bice)
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Life Quotes:
“I’m in Emotional Overdrive, blinded by the tears in my eyes, led off course by the dreams that I dare, just fooling myself to think someone will care.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“If you’re looking for me, I’ll be lost in my own self-pity.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“I’m just an Innocent heart drifting through a Corrupt world, searching for Reason in Chaos.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“Jealousy is just another word for insanity.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“I'm not insecure; I just don't trust anyone.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“In a way, life calls upon each of us to be artists. We are expected to create a masterpiece of a life out of absolutely nothing.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“I'm a Dreamer - I Pout not from Sadness, but from Contemplation.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“We all have scars. Some are thick, rough, and obvious. Some are smaller, lighter, and unimpressive. Some are invisible; but all of them are ugly. Each one makes us who we have become.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“Sometimes, the echo of a memory becomes the wallpaper of the mind. The intangible transcending physics; thoughts transcending reality; the mysterious becomes familiar; and all that you know ceases to exist.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
"This is just one of those horrible, painful, frustrating events that is going to make you the person who you are meant to be. It may be hard, but strength of character never came easily." (Kimberly S. Desio)
“Jealousy leads to the decomposition of the soul.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“Call me what you will, but labels belong on cans. I am what I am.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“Why I do this to myself, I will never know. Cutting my heart open, watching it bleed out right in front of my eyes - and for what? Nothing good will come of this; nothing good can ever come of this. But somehow, hurting so badly makes you feel alive; because without the pain, you might as well be dead - and THAT is why we chose to suffer.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
“Sometimes, you just have to understand that you Can't have things quite the way you Want them... Sometimes, you just have to be Content with what you Know is Right for you, instead of what you Think you Want... Sometimes, you just have to Realize that there is No Ideal. Sometimes, you just have to Accept that This is Your Life.” (Kimberly S. Desio)
"Just when life finally sorts itself out, it gets complicated again. Every time your heart mends, someone else comes along to tear it back open. Life is a revolving door of Hurt me. Heal me." (Kimberly S. Desio)
Law Enforcement Quotes
"There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick." (Grover Whalen)
"Not all women are created equal. Some of us are police wives." (Unknown)
"Hug a Police Wife... or buy her alcohol." (Unknown)
“Police Officer: We believe foul play was involved.
Tommy Patel: Surely you don't think I...
Police Officer: I don't think anything, sir. I'm a police officer.” (Unknown)
Patriotic Quotes:
"We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." (Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953)
"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it." (Thomas Jefferson, 1793)
"The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and the courage to match our commitments." (Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967)
