Best Endangered Words
136 Endangered quotes by 118 unique authors
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Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
— Andrew Vachss
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Little Life Lesson 51: When selecting a member of a group to put on the Endangered Species List, it’s probably best not to pick the…
— Michele Jaffe
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You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our…
— Terence McKenna
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Dane was shaking his head firmly. "Don't bring it here, Ella. No babies." I gave him a dark look. "What if it were a baby…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you should be able to kick a hole…
— Cassandra Clare
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That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the…
— John Green
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We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
— Douglas Adams
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Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a…
— Sophie Kinsella
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It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive…
— Peter Straub
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The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care…
— Fred Rogers
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But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou…
— John F. Kennedy
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Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women…
— Elie Wiesel
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If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
— Henry Rollins
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To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.
— Paul Watson
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In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.
— Jef I Richards
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A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
— Benjamin Cohen
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When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
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Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to…
— Joseph Rotblat
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and…
— Ulrich Beck
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It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion…
— Jim Saxton
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I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in…
— Abraham Maslow
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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is…
— Tom Robbins
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