Will this be a long term fix for McDonald's USA? We won't know until well into 2016. Richard Adams More Quotes by Richard Adams More Quotes From Richard Adams I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself. Richard Adams suffering rabbits thinking We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be. Richard Adams trying fall needs There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you. Richard Adams size strange cutting All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed. Richard Adams warning people enemy You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple. Richard Adams certain simple thinking We all have to meet our match sometime or other. Richard Adams To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature. Richard Adams clouds heart memories Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now. Richard Adams loss animal past I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power. Richard Adams flower sky two When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to come entirely of their own accord, and they were the dog and the cat. And ever since then, those two have been jealous of each other, and each is for ever trying to make man choose which one he likes best. Every man prefers one or the other. Richard Adams jealous cat dog Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. Richard Adams earth animal men Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back. Richard Adams pain doe children I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it. Richard Adams want book children A thing can be true and still be desperate folly. Richard Adams desperate being-true folly Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. Richard Adams cunning tricks people If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else. Richard Adams accepted rabbits advice Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else. Richard Adams survival usual thinking One cloud feels lonely. Richard Adams feeling-lonely lonely clouds Our children's children will hear a good story. Richard Adams our-children stories children They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else. Richard Adams council not-afraid fear
