Rats Quotes - Page 5

• I never said, 'MMMmmm, you dirty rat!

  James Cagney

  Dirty, Said

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• We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Choices, Feminist, Mazes

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• I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Dream, Sex

  Pablo Neruda, “Cat's Dream”

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• Foxes may be furrier and sexier than rats, but they are still vermin, and need to be controlled and killed. When I consider all the different methods of killing foxes, my view, backed up by Lord Burns, is that hunting with hounds is the most natural way to kill them . We have to be honest about the fact that what really upsets some of my hon. Friends - and, perhaps, some Opposition Members too - is the idea that only toffs go hunting. If only hunters did not wear red coats, things might be different.

  Kate Hoey

  Hunting, Views, Ideas

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• How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?

  Thanhha Lai

  Country, Honor, Helping

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• A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Animal, Boys

  Washingtonian magazine, August 01, 1986.

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• General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that cause and effect cannot be separated. A simple variable can be both cause and effect. Reality will not be still. And it cannot be taken apart! You cannot understand a cell, a rat, a brain structure, a family, a culture if you isolate it from its context. Relationship is everything.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Taken, Simple, Reality

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• The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

  Nellie Bly

  Islands, Insane, Asylums

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.87, Golgotha Press

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• It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

  Richard Koch

  Race, May, Like Me

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.147, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.

  Jerry Nachman

  Race, Missing, Rat Race

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• A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

  Will Cuppy

  Home, Cobras, Clear

  "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• The snake, the rat, the cat, the dog...
  How you gonna see 'em if you livin' in the fog?

  DMX

  Dog, Rap, Cat

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• And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Country, Winner, Indifference

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• Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet?
  Why did Judas rat to the Romans while Jesus slept?

  Ghostface Killah

  Jesus, Rap, Blue

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• But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

  Jonathan Swift

  Time, Thinking, Self Improvement

  Letter to Bolingbroke, 21 March 1730, in Harold Williams (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift' vol. 3 (1963) p. 382

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• Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.

  Edward Abbey

  Intellectual, Earth, Care

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• I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

  B. F. Skinner

  Lying, Men, Differences

  B. F. Skinner (1990). “The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis”, p.466, B. F. Skinner Foundation

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• Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

  Drew Carey

  Cities, House, Political

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• What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

  Matt Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Rivers

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• Rat is a lot like duck, except with a wonderfully nutty flavor.

  Cody Lundin

  Ducks, Survival, Flavor

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• I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

  Bob Geldof

  Fun, Nice, Thinking

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• Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

  David Baldacci

  Book, Kids, Rocks

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• The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

  Frans de Waal

  Giving, Empathy, Brain

  "Do Humans Alone 'Feel Your Pain'?". The Chronicle, October 26, 2001.

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• I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic postcard themes. I knew, however, from many visits to Boathouse Row, that at the same time, armies of rats were holding maneuvers in the basements.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Army, Night, Light

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• The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable. Nobody is a post-modernist when it comes to reading the labels on a medicine bottle versus a box of rat poison! You better believe that texts have objective meaning!

  William Lane Craig

  Believe, Reading, Ideas

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