Rats Quotes - Page 14

• I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.

  Ida B. Wells

  Dog, Fighting, Black History

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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• It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man - which makes American psychology so profoundly disturbing.

  Ludwig von Bertalanffy

  Men, Differences, Psychology

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• It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

  E. B. White

  Love, Happiness, Sheep

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• Christmas Eve Saint Francis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the goblin, That is hight good fellow Robin: Keep it from all evil spirits, Fairies, weezels, rats, and ferrets: From curfew time To the next prime.

  Thomas Cartwright

  Time, Night, Evil

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• It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

  Jean Anouilh

  Voice, Tragedy, Complaining

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• Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

  Garrison Keillor

  Humor, Laughing, Doe

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.14, Penguin

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• You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally. You have a responsibility before God and Hitler for everything that is happening. I myself hate this bloody business and I have been moved to the depths of my soul. But I am obeying the highest law by doing my duty. Man must defend himself against bedbugs and rats, against vermin.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Hate, Responsibility, Men

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• Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Self, Holocaust, Rabbits

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.21, Princeton University Press

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• You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Horse, Fall, Men

  "On Being the Right Size" by J. B. S. Haldane, 1926.

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• To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Gym Rats, Way

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• Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

  David Suzuki

  Technology, Environmental, Mammals

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• Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.

  Dewitt Jones

  Race, Celebration, Incredibles

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• If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was nothing but hard work. I was in the gym three or four times a day, working on my skills. If we lost a game, and I thought I played bad, I'm staying in the gym to keep shooting. That's what I did. That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Hard Work, Thinking, Years

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• You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.

  Arthur M. Jolly

  Littles, Cheese, Enough

  "Long Joan Silver". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, July 10, 2013.

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• We thought New York City was home to 8 million rats. Turns out, that's a little high. The actual number is 2 million rats. That explains the light turnout for the midterm elections.

  David Letterman

  New York, Home, Light

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• I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Children, Believe

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• The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.

  Henry Lawson

  Cutting, Men, Drunk

  Henry Lawson (1984). “A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works, 1901-1922”

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• It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts of interesting themes and ideas into their books, and so for me it was a short leap to go from the fantasy and Sci-Fi genres to folklore, mythology, ancient history and philosophy. I did not read philosophy because I set out to become a philosopher; I read it because it looked interesting.

  Terry Pratchett

  Philosophy, Book, Reading

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• Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

  Ihara Saikaku

  House, Widows, Suitors

  Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse, Or, The Millionaires' Gospel Modernised”, Cambridge University Press

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• Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.

  Roger Zelazny

  Philosophical, Writing, Smoking

  Roger Zelazny (2000). “The Hand of Oberon”, G K Hall & Company

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• If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

  John Green

  World, Awful, Nervous

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.6, A&C Black

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• Hello George. Hey Martha (Percy) Did you bring us a rat? (George) George, stop it!He's busy! (Martha) Too busy for rats? That's just sad. (George)

  Rick Riordan

  Hey, Hello, Busy

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• The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” said Ripred.

  Suzanne Collins

  Believe, Sleep, Trying

  "Gregor the Overlander". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2003.

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• Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. “Long time, no see.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Long, Hello

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• I sat up in bed. "What did he say?" Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on the couch, his feet so far over the edge they were in the bathroom. "The happy man said...bowling practice?" I hoped he was right, but then there was an urgent knock on the suite's interior door. Annabeth stuck her head in--her blonde hair in a rat's nest. "DISEMBOWLING practice?

  Rick Riordan

  Lying, Men, Feet

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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