Bites Quotes - Page 6

• People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire.

  Henri Nouwen

  Kissing, People, World

  "Encounters with Merton". Book by Henri Nouwen, September 1, 2004.

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• Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.

  David Gemmell

  Bark, My Friends, One Thing

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee.

  Henry Kirke White

  Dog, Yes I Can, Mouths

  Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey (1822). “The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College, Cambridge”, p.73

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• I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.

  Donald Barthelme

  Believe, Arguing, Action

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• The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

  Lin Yutang

  Dog, Pet, Degenerates

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

  George Eliot

  Taste, Firsts, Unbearable

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.255, Wordsworth Editions

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• As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.

  David Corn

  Play, Choices, Important

  "The Iranian Nuclear Deal: What the Experts Are Saying" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. April 3, 2015.

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• The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Mass Culture, Sound

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• The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.

  Paul Stanley

  Kids, Exercise, Zippers

  "Paul Stanley, from 'chunky' kid to fit KISS rocker". Interview with James S. Fell, beta.latimes.com. April 20, 2013.

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• I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Giving, Sound, Host

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• I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

  Colin Baker

  Brother, Doctors, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Cowardice, Bark, Cowardly

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book VII, 4, 13,

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• And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there is no torturer to placate, no hooded man with hot irons and tongs, just a burn you can't escape, we bargain with God, or ourselves, depending on the size of our egos.

  Mark Lawrence

  Hurt, Pain, Boys

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.178, Penguin

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• On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies.

  Lester Holt

  Cutting, Oatmeal, Guy

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• The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat on a lone boulder in the midst of the curlews. By now, they had grown accustomed to me. This too, I found encouraging-that in the face of stressful intrusions, we can eventually settle in. One begins to almost trust the intruder as a presence that demands greater intent toward life. On a day like today when the air is dry and smells of salt, I have found my open space, my solitude, and sky. And I have found the birds who require it.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Smell, Space, Air

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• Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.

  Harold Wilson

  Dog, Fall, Taken

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• Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

  Stephen King

  Teeth, Poet, Wounds

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• Bite off more than you can chew, then keep chewing.

  Joe De Sena

  Books And Movies, Biting, Geek

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• The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Art, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2219, Manonmani Publishers

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• TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nature, Insomnia, Novelists

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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• We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it's like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Political, Pockets, Scorpions

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.

  Tyne Daly

  Actors, Greedy, Steak

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We in the Great White North but you can bite my White South!

  John Cena

  Wwe, White, South

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• Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Real, Gone

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.208, Penguin

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• Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Writing, Damn

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