Lee Ryan Quotes

With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.

You don't give a carrot to a killer rabbit.

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.

A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal.

I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.

People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees!

Crocodiles are really bold, and they do come up on land.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.