Ruminants Quotes

#1. Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.

Vera Farmiga

#2. The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

Herbert Spencer

#3. Why should quiet ruminants as you and I have been born in such a ghastly age?

C.S. Lewis

#4. How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing ... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#6. When we scream and shout inside our heart, deep silence prevails outside and often we are mistaken to be snobbish.

Upasana Banerjee

#7. The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

Thomas Carlyle

#8. There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.

Andrew Zimbalist

#10. The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

Cheryl Heller

#11. Joe" I said. "It's Stephanie."
"Does this involve death?"
"Not yet."
"Does this involve sex?"
"Not yet."
"I can't imagine why else you'd be calling me.

Janet Evanovich

#12. President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

John Yoo

#13. Hopefully by next week the classes will have paid off and I'll be cooking gourmet."
"Gourmet? From your cooking?" He pushed aside his computer, grabbed a paper plate, and started scoop0ing rice. "You shouldn't be able say those things in the same sentence.

Kristin Miller

#14. To him, even the momentary was momentous.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. The idea that one thing that will define you, forever, is pretty amazing," I said. "It makes you choose it more carefully.

Katie Kacvinsky

#16. How much longer do you think you'll be able to keep doing this?"
"Keep doing what?"
"Chatting someone up for a week, fucking her, and moving on the the next. How much longer?"
"Until my dick stops working.

Whitney Gracia Williams