{"quotes":[{"text":"I nearly killed a rabbit' is not an ingredient for preparing broth or pepper soup. 'I lost it' may seem bitter; but 'I nearly won it' is bitterest! Remember, if it must be done, then it must be done well!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["animal","bitter","cook","cooking","cuisine","do-it-well","dont-give-up","done-well","excel","excellent","food-for-thought","hunter","ingredient","israelmore-ayivor","never-give-up","prepare","preparing","rabbit","rat","well-done","win","winner"],"id":699,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["animal","arrogance","be-yourself","chase","circle","consideration","dog","ego","help","helping-others","narcissism","others","pet","pride","pursue","rhetorical","self","selfish","selflessness","serve","serving-others"],"id":764,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.","author":"Alice Hoffman","tags":["admiration","animal","horse","msytical","respect","strength"],"id":2275,"author_id":"Alice+Hoffman"},{"text":"The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for.","author":"Robert Redford","tags":["animal","environment","long "],"id":2500,"author_id":"Robert+Redford"},{"text":"Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["advance","affect","aid","alter","animal","animals","ants","assist","assistance","better","black","change","cooperation","creatures","difference","effect","feel","guide","harmony","help","helping","hope","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hour","human","humanity","improve","influence","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","live","living","lose","make-a-difference","one-world","power","powerful","powerless","powerlessness","realise","realize","recognise","recognize","relief","save","shape","sight","speck","spend","take","time","together","togetherness","transform","transformation","transformative","unity"],"id":4267,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["after-life","afterlife","animal","animal","animals-and-man","animals-humans","animals-in-heaven","animals-in-heaven","belief","belief","faith","religion"],"id":4855,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["after-life","afterlife","animal","animal","animals-and-man","animals-humans","animals-in-heaven","animals-in-heaven","belief","belief","faith","religion"],"id":4855,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Who’s gonna bring the wild animals some hope? If we don’t love them the way they are..","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["animal","animal-rights","animal-welfare","animals","animals-rights","bring","hope","hopelessness","love","wild-animals","wildlife"],"id":9541,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There is must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live. And so, in hope and solitude, my story ends.","author":"H.G. Wells","tags":["animal","doctor-moreau","edward-prendick","heaven","hope"],"id":9592,"author_id":"H.G.+Wells"},{"text":"I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy. And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.","author":"Charles Grandison Finney","tags":["animal","dignity","human","man","noble"],"id":12602,"author_id":"Charles+Grandison+Finney"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":248,"pages":25,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}