Animal Quote by George F. Kennan Download Open image “Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.” — George F. Kennan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Cat Flow Humanity Pet Seems Vases
A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him. — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play? — Anna Cora Mowatt Copy Share Image
A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage, affectionate and aloof, greedy and finicky, sound asleep in one instant, and awake and stalking in the next. A cat is a limp puddle of softness, surrounding a steel-hard and ever-alert set of muscles. ... A cat has… — Leonore Fleischer Copy Share
“It flows purling, widely flowing, floating foampool, flower unfurling.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Cats do this thing with their faces where they're so still, but they have this almost magnetic connection to anything they're observing. — Emma Corrin Copy Share Image
“He moved like a jungle cat, all purposeful, calculated motion—wrapped up in fluid grace.” — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can’t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Little known fact- a cat which has just bitten itself in the ass can achieve impressive speed at it dashes madly straight up a… — Amy Petrie Shaw Copy Share Image
We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
“In the face of this situation we would be better off to dispense now with a number of the concepts which have underlined our thinking with regard to the Far East. We should dispense with the aspiration to 'be liked' or to be regarded as the repository of a high-minded international altruism. We should stop putting ourselves in the position… — George F. Kennan Copy Share
“If you accept a democratic system, this means that you are prepared to put up with those of its workings, legislative or administrative, with which you do not agree as well as with those that meet with your concurrence. This willingness to accept, in principle, the workings of a system based on the will of the majority, even when you… — George F. Kennan Copy Share
The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world… — George F. Kennan Copy Share
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet… — Ernest Becker Copy Share
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.… — Alan Abel Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
