Crocodiles Quotes - Page 2

• As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

  William James

  Sympathy, Lying, Justice

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.284, Harvard University Press

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• I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

  Steve Irwin

  Nature, Fear, Koalas

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

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• Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

  Winston Churchill

  Lasts, Someday, Appeasement

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• You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

  Steve Irwin

  Snakes, Sticks, Turns

  "Interview with Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin -- Part 5: Don't Try This at Home". Interview with Sarah Simpson, www.scientificamerican.com. March 26, 2001.

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• The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

  Steve Irwin

  Years, Age, Nine

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• I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.

  Steve Irwin

  Life, Important, Use

  "Crikey What an Adventure". Documentary, 2007.

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• There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

  William James

  Lying, Misunderstood, Statistics

  'The Varieties of Religious Experience' (1902) lectures 14 and 15, p. 355

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• Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Song, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.147, University of Georgia Press

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• I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.

  Tori Amos

  Death, Sharks, Obsession

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• A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Democracy, Trying

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name.

  John Lawson

  Names

  John Lawson (2010). “A New Voyage to Carolina”, p.132, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.

  Steve Irwin

  Mean, Sharks, Wow

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• Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

  Garry Kasparov

  Smell, Weakness, Definitions

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

  Carl Jung

  Patient, Nonsense, Select

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• I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.

  Steve Irwin

  Apex Predators, Minutes, Fine

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• I put a bullet into the back of the crocodiles neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

  Louis Leakey

  Water, Bullets, Necks

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• Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

  Aldous Huxley

  Women, Eggs, Female

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• Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

  Jack Hanna

  Nests, Boat, Alligators

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• Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Kids, Love Is

  '60 Minutes' With Ed Bradley, www.cbsnews.com. December 28, 2003.

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• Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

  Steve Irwin

  Hunters, Conservation, Crocs

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• I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

  Zahi Hawass

  Mean, Found, Inscriptions

  "The king of the pharaohs" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2003.

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• Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.

  Robert Hughes

  Rhinos, Giving, Vision

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• So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

  Steve Irwin

  Mistake, Helping, Help Me

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• SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Character, Cat

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2506, Delphi Classics

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• For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

  Ken Jennings

  Children, Florida, Apples

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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