Marianne Thieme Quotes

#1. My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.

Lynn Coady

#2. The weight of your baggage never stops true love from taking flight.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#3. Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

Marianne Thieme

#4. More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. At twenty-three, Hollman was young, single, and willing to give up any semblance of having a life in favor of working at SpaceX nonstop, and he became Mueller's second in command.

Ashlee Vance

#6. In the past, no one paid any serious attention, even to the existing laws that protect animals.

Marianne Thieme

#7. Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has cost us much, ensnared us in our own designs, given us a few boasts to make about our courage and genius, but all the same it is an illusion.

Donald Worster

#8. To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

Josh Radnor

#9. Today, we take to task any governmental body that doesn't protect animals, and take legal action if necessary.

Marianne Thieme

#10. Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify with reality. You can make this neurological fact into conscious experience, and you will never be bored or depressed again.

Robert Anton Wilson

#11. The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.

Marianne Thieme

#12. Don't look for an unshakable rock to stand on; there ain't any! Rather, learn how to stand still on a shaking rock!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

Leslie Jamison

#15. While anyone who practices a religion has the right to their own religious truths, it doesn't give them the right to violate the welfare of another human or an animal. So, where necessary, it is the task of the government to intervene and curb the freedom of religion.

Marianne Thieme

#16. I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

Condola Rashad

#17. A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it
that alone can be like waking up from a dream.

David Steindl-Rast

#18. You dress to please yourself. If she doesn't like you for you, then you don't need her.' All of this would be fine if I knew exactly who me for me was.

Jennifer Niven

#19. TELL me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the most likely place to find Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. A lot of animal experiments consider only commercial interests. We want to ban all animal experiments as soon as possible.

Marianne Thieme

#21. Make peace, you fools!

Gerd Von Rundstedt