Cat Quotes - Page 67

Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Kittens can happen to anyone.

When it comes to knowing how to relax, cats are the original yoga experts.

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as 'the nature of things.' The very efficacy of opinion manipulation rests on the fact that we do not know we are being manipulated. The most insidious forms of oppression are those that so insinuate themselves into our communication universe and the recesses of our minds that we do not even realize they are acting upon us.

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality, how can you help?

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

You look beautiful sitting there spitting at me like a she-cat. All I have to do is look at you, and I lust. I'm going to take you back to the hotel and take off that delectable dress and make love to you until you don't have the energy to be mad at me anymore." Ian Connelly, Marquis of Derne

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

Each individual cat got up and did his thing. It wasn't like today where they come down and put down some nice linoleum so you don't get burnt up. I mean, we used to b-boy right in the middle of the park with broken glass everywhere! And you'd get up and you'd be all scratched and burised and bleeding and you would be ready to go right back in the circle. You'd just wipe the glass off your elbows and go right back in.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.

We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's apostles as authorities, who did not themselves of their own wills choose anything of what they wanted to believe, but faithfully transmitted to the nations, the teachings of Christ.

Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

Travel not only stirs the blood. . . It also gives strength to the spirit.