#purr

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way. ↗

— Vince Cable

#cats #completely #confront #cut #environmental

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#being #father #finding #him #his

A good horse should be seldom spurred. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#horse #seldom #should #spurred

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#cannot #care #cat #i #i care

To err is human, to purr feline. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#feline #human #purr #to err is human

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#chase #come #feet #him #ignore

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction. ↗

— Wayne White

#failures #magnitude #nobody #our #part

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. ↗

— Martin Delany

#bestow #cat #everyone #favorite #meet

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. ↗

— Monica Edwards

#case #dealing #device #happiness #her

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. ↗

— Dean Inge

#cat #human #human beings #more #pleased