Squirrel Cage Quotes

#1. Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Millicent Fenwick

#2. The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

Frederick Buechner

#3. I won't always be the odd ones going round and round in our owe little squirrel cage!

Corinne Willis

#4. Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.

David W. Earle

#5. Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.

Sylvia Plath

#6. his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#7. Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel?

Ray Bradbury

#8. If the people are victorious against the government, the nation will be weak; if the government is victorious against the people, the military will have strength. [thus they] will have the means by which they may fight, and thus ascend to supremacy.

Shang Yang

#9. Had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once. Take

Neil Gaiman

#10. Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.

Joan D. Chittister

#12. The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.

Julius Lester

#14. The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

Noam Chomsky

#15. It's the way he gets noticed, you know? I mean, imagine what it would be like if you were a squirrel living in the elephant cage at the zoo. Does anyone ever go there and say, Hey check out that squirrel? No, because there's something so much bigger you notice first.

Jodi Picoult

#16. Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.

Joseph Rotblat