Best Totems Quotes

47 Totems quotes by 46 unique authors

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. — Pierre Trudeau
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it. — J. Paul Getty
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. — Mason Cooley
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. — Simon Cowell
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of… — Thomas Jefferson
We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox… — Norman Jewison
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. — D. H. Lawrence
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. — Groucho Marx
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only… — Karl Marx
A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights. — Lance Morrow
I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox,… — Rachel Nichols
In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go. — Andy Roddick
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive… — Erwin Schrodinger
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. — Thomas Szasz
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood. — Denzel Washington
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval… — Joan Didion
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in… — James A. Baldwin
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless… — Sue Monk Kidd
But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with… — Sherman Alexie
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of… — Rick Yancey
In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what… — Joan Didion
And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and… — Tom Robbins

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