Frans de Waal Quotes

Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'

Frans de Waal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: October 29, 1948

Topics

DogGreatSayingSomeoneFeelings

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

Jimmy Johnson

GoodLeaderCharacterPeopleYou

I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the world.'

Jim Rash

I AmMeWaitWorldYouI Can

You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Joel Osteen

NatureGodMistakesYouInsideMay

There is no pure free-market economy.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

EconomyPureFree-Market

I've always wanted to work in comedy.

Amber Stevens

WorkComedyAlwaysWanted

Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language.

Alvaro Enrigue

WordsThinkLanguageAlienTarget

Of course ankle length socks are cheaper, but they don't cover the lower leg as hosiery should.

Roger Stone

SocksLegAnkleCheaperCourse

Sometimes, my mouth can get the better of me.

Rodrigo Duterte

MeBetterMouthSometimesGet

The narrative shouldn't stop for the song in a musical. The music has to continue the narrative of the storytelling.

Mike Mitchell

MusicSongStopStorytellingMusical

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

TruthMyselfPainWorldTruth Is

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

Dennis Brown

SingingSongYouWillAlwaysLine

To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.

Debbie Ford

LifePositivePastThinkingYouNew

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