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Some Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to…
- I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that…
- Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do…
- Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become…
- Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able…
- It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being…
- He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves…
- Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and…
- Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But…
- A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some…
- Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more…
- ...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
- Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which…
- Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you…
- Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor…
- I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad news…
- He Wrote, Are you OK? I told him, My eyes are crummy. He wrote, But are you OK? I told him, That's a very complicated…
- How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.
- This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating.…
- Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be…
- In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a…
- When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
More Some Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong