Lions Quotes - Page 17

• White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.

  Honore de Balzac

  Strong, Queens, Prayer

  "Seraphita". Book by Honoré de Balzac. Chapter 6: "The Road to Heaven", 1834.

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• I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.... What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

  "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak. Paraphrase of the 1958 translation, as quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978), 1957.

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• God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars-- If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears.

  Robinson Jeffers

  God, Stars, Night

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.292, Stanford University Press

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• Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.

  William Matthews

  Dream, Agency, Sight

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• If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

  Michael Frayn

  Speak, Ifs

  Michael Frayn (2016). “Collected Columns”, p.111, Faber & Faber

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• In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff.

  Big Sean

  Inspiration, Gazelles, Stuff

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all.

  Mike Tyson

  Pet, Exotic, Pigeons

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The Lord will give His righteous servants opportunities to be bold as lions when they speak in His name and as witnesses in His priesthood.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Opportunity, Names, Giving

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• It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Ignorance, Greatness, Animal

  "'De Potentia' ('On Power')". Book by Thomas Aquinas, q. 3, art. 6, ad 4, dhspriory.org.

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• I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Roots, Tree, Pioneers

  Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.16, Applewood Books

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• The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Country, School, People

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• People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

  Hannah Kent

  Self, People, Doubt

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Keys, Hair

  Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

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• A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear.

  Francis Quarles

  Fear, Lambs, Bears

  Francis Quarles, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1778). “Emblems divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man”

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• Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.

  Tom Shales

  Christian, Civilization, Hungry Lion

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• A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sheep, Thrones, Opinion

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• If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

  Julie Klausner

  Race, Childhood, Would Be

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• For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.

  Billy Connolly

  Animal, Winning, Desire

  Quoted in Pamela Stephenson Billy (2001).

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• The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

  Woody Allen

  Excellence, Body, Beast

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Believe, Cat, Two

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• When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

  Idries Shah

  Taken, Meat, Ants

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.72, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moving, Wine, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• Cold is our element and winter's air
  Brings voices as of lions coming down.

  Wallace Stevens

  Winter, Air, Voice

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.134, Vintage

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• Every wolf's and lion's howl
  Raises from Hell a human soul.

  William Blake

  Soul, Hell, Howl

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.286, Pearson Education

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• Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Taken, Character, Mean

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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