Rats Quotes
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A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigged, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively have quit it.
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
wendell berry— "Economy and Pleasure"
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with Rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.
frans de waal— Frans de Waal (2001-10-26). Do Humans Alone 'Feel Your Pain'?. The Chronicle. Retrieved on 2008-07-20.
If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of Rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their death---like MEN. Let us not crawl down amongst the Rats begging for mercy or trying to out-sneak them and pretend to be Rats ourselves!
George Lincoln Rockwell— In Hoc Signo Vinces
No! How could I be defeated again by a pack of filthy street Rats?!
— Who: Jafar
— Note: After fighting Sora above Agrabah, he explodes and dies.
Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles. And ate the cheeses out of the vats.
Robert Browning— 1842 Dramatic Lyrics,'The Pied Piper of Hamlin'.
[Footnote:] A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.
will cuppy— The Cobra
Rats desert a sinking ship. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1150)
— A leader or organization in trouble will quickly be abandoned.
Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted spRats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.
Robert Browning— The Pied Piper of Hamelin, line 10 (1842).
There’s one other thing that I think every frog or person needs to be creative: and that is friends. For me, I think the very best part of creativity is collaborating with friends and colleagues. Admittedly, mine happen to be bears, pigs, Rats, chickens, and penguins, but you go with whatever works for you.
Kermit the Frog— "The creative act of listening to a talking frog," TEDx Talk (2014)
Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the Rats run amok in his thatch?
robert bridges— Book I, lines 83-87.
My subjects are like Rats in a basket.
— "Morocco poll - choice or façade?". BBC News. 1 September 2007.
You can't make cheese from Rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.
arthur m. jolly— Jenn Gunn, Act II, Scene 2
Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by Rats, and widows by suitors.
ihara saikaku— Book I, ch. 5
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack Rats and vandalized nightly.
roger ebert— "Critical Eye" column, Yahoo! Internet Life, September 1998, p. 66
In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on Rats than we do on humans.
warren farrell— p. 189. (Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex)
Those Rats ... were attacked by the masses tonight and we eliminated them.
muammar gaddafi— Radio address on rebel forces in Tripoli, as quoted in "Libya conflict: Col Gaddafi faces rebel uprising on streets of Tripoli" in The Telegraph (21 August 2011)
[Pigeons are] Rats with wings.
Ken Livingstone— Although Ken Livingstone has used this phrase on many occasions (including at the Greater London Authority 'People's Question Time' on 24 October 2000: see Hugh Muir, "Ken vows no surrender in tube funding battle", Evening Standard, October 25, 2000, p. 6), the phrase is not original. The screenplay for Stardust Memories, a 1980 film written and directed by Woody Allen, includes the following:
Sandy Bates: What was that? What was that?
Dorrie: Hey, that's so pretty. A pigeon!
Sandy Bates: Geez ... no, it's not pretty at all. They're... they're... they're rats with wings.
These women, capable of the most sublime emotions, of the tenderest sympathies, were openmouthed and screaming. They wanted to live, they were helpless, likes Rats in a trap, and they screamed.
jack london— Chapter One (The Sea-Wolf (1904))
When the water reaches the upper deck, follow the Rats.
h. l. mencken— Mencken quotes this in Newspaper Days, 1899–1906 (1941) as a maxim he learned from Al Goodman
Think of lab Rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' ... Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.
ilana mercer— "'Left' and 'Right' Bamboozling You on Benghazi", American Daily Herald, January 13, 2014
As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on Rats or sophomores.
steven pinker— p. 84 (Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (Basic Books, 1999))
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larry wall— hash.c (Other files)
Over the decades, cult operatives have fished through Singer's trash, sent her death threats and picketed her lectures. They've released dozens of live Rats at her house, put dead ones on her doorstep (hearts skewered with lollipop sticks) and hacked into her computer so many times she doesn't use one any more. Once a cultist talked her way into working in Singer's campus office, then stole a sheaf of term papers and sent bizarre notes to the students.
— Margaret Singer has made history delving into the psychology of brainwashing, San Francisco Chronicle, May 26, 2002
But not everyone agreed with her views on the subject, and Singer paid a price for her work. Cult "operatives" dug through her trash, went through her mail, picketed her lectures and sent her death threats. They also hacked into her computer countless times, once released dozens of live Rats in her house, and frequently left dead Rats on her doorstep with threatening notes.
— Margaret Singer, 82; Expert on Brainwashing, Cults Testified at 1976 Trial of Patricia Hearst, Los Angeles Times, November 28, 2003
Think of lab Rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' ... Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.
— "'Left' and 'Right' Bamboozling You on Benghazi", American Daily Herald, January 13, 2014
Jefferson was against any needless official apparel, but if the gown was to carry, he said: "For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like Rats peeping through bunches of oakum."
benjamin harrison— Benjamin Harrison, The Constitution and Administration of the United States of America (1897), p. 320; quoting a comment by Thomas Jefferson on judges' apparel.
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack Rats and vandalized nightly.
— Roger Ebert, "Critical Eye" column, Yahoo! Internet Life, September 1998, p. 66
