A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen: Cattle dragged and choked... knocking 'em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they're stunned they come back to life, and they're up there agonizing. They're supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren't and they'll go through the skinning process alive. I've worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones. They're all the same. If people were to see this, they'd probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn't mean anything.
~quote about Vegetarianism by Slaughterhouse 1997
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
~quotes on Mistakes by Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
~sayings on Horses by Nikolay Gogol
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
~quotations on Cats by Joseph Wood Krutch
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.
~new cute love quotes by Hermann Hankel
If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it
~saying about new by Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.
~quote about Poker by Lou Krieger
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
~quotes on Justice by Robert Frost
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up
~sayings on Retirement by Tommy Bolt
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
~quotations on Books Reading by Plato
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
~new cute love quotes by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.
~saying about new by Martin H. Fischer
It's better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash.
~quote about Safety by Author Unknown
Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.
~quotes on Gardens by Author Unknown
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
~sayings on Mistakes by John Powell
It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.
~quotations on Solitude by K.T. Jong
Strikeouts are boring - besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic.
~new cute love quotes by From the movie Bull Durham
America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.
~saying about new by Marshall McLuhan
A large heart can be filled with very little.
~quote about Helping by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
My handicap? Woods and irons.
~quotes on Golf by Chris Codiroli
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy
~sayings on Money by George Lorimer
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.
~quotations on Perspective by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
~new cute love quotes by Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
~saying about new by Martin Buxbaum
Love your countryYour country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves t
~quote about Patriotic by Giuseppe Mazzini
I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
~quotes on College by Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yardMother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply"We're raising boys."
~sayings on Fathers Day by Harmon Killebrew
The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.
~quotations on Adversity by Aeschylus, The Suppliant Maidens
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
~new cute love quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.
~saying about new by Catherine Hall
I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.
~quote about Funny Quotes by Oscar Levant
For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow only a vision of joy and hope, Look well then to this day.
~quotes on Goals by
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
~sayings on Food by Meryl Streep
Australian Rules football might best be described as a game devised for padded cells, played in the open air.
~quotations on American football by Jim Murray
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death - fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.
~new cute love quotes by Edna Ferber, A Kind of Magic, 1963
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
~saying about new by Dave Foreman, Harper's, April 1990
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
~quote about Art by Albert Camus
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
~quotes on Attitude by Chinese Proverb
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