Lions Quotes - Page 24

• This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.

  John Locke

  Cat, Men, Thinking

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.267

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• One of the major hobbies in South Florida is keeping animals that no sane person would want to keep. One of those is snakes. They usually get them when they're small, and when they get too big, they let them go. But there are also people with monkeys, lions, tigers. And they all get away, eventually.

  Dave Barry

  Animal, Snakes, Florida

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• A lion never roars after a kill.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Basketball Leadership

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.42, Penguin

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• There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

  Samuel Butler

  Gossip, Roaring, May

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4250, Delphi Classics

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• It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photographer, Accidents

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• All right." He straightened up and seemed to be true to his promise to let it go. "I will be a man about this." That lasted until he saw the scratches on the hood from the mountain lion and the front fender, Where Abigail had dragged it off the driveway. Wailing, he went to it and sank to his knees. He sprawled over the hood and laid his head on the damaged fender. "I'm so sorry, Bets. I should of hidden the keys. Booted your tires. Something. I had know idea anyone would hurt you so, baby. I swear I'll never let anyone hurt you again. Ayyy, how could they do this to you? How? Oh the humanity!

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Hurt, Sorry

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.260, Macmillan

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• It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Sheep, Years

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• I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.

  Norman Lear

  Wizards, Wanted, Cowardly

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

  James Surowiecki

  Agency, Clients, Advertising

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• The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

  David Whyte

  Sound, Essentials, Vulnerable

  David Whyte (2007). “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”, p.121, Crown Business

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• Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals that end up on our breakfast, lunch, and dinner plates, however, aren't those who normally eat other animals. The animals we exploit for food are not the lions and tigers and bears of the world. For the most part, we eat the gentle vegan animals. However, on today's farms, we actually force them to become meat eaters by making them eat feed containing the rendered remains of other animals, which they would never eat in the wild.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Meat Eating, Lunch

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Lions and other carnivorous animals do eat meat, but that doesn't mean we should. They would die if they didn't eat meat. Human beings, in contrast, choose to eat meat; it isn't a physiological necessity.

  Sharon Gannon

  Mean, Animal, Meat

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

  Frans Lanting

  Different, Individual, Members

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• New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

  Zubin Mehta

  New York, World, Dens

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• I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.

  Maya Angelou

  Cat, Successful, Thinking

  "Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.

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• And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Men, Midnight

  "The Horse and His Boy". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1954.

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• The lion is most handsome when looking for food.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Food, Purpose

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• To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.

  George Schaller

  Memories, Rhythm Of Life, Imagination

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• Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sleep, Numbers, Dew

  1819 'The Mask of Anarchy'.

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• If, in order to succeed in an enterprise, I were obliged to choose between fifty deer commanded by a lion, and fifty lions commanded by a deer, I should consider myself more certain of success with the first group than with the second.

  Vincent de Paul

  Order, Groups, Fifty

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• Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Arabia, Clubs, Clown

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• If you take a look at our natural history, there's always a moment where the young lion wants to challenge the older lion and, inherently, that's going to be problematic, and I don't think we're any different.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Thinking, Challenges, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't pussyfoot around. When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat.

  Ice Cube

  Talking

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• If you're Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, if you're in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, you don't get out of your vehicle and go walking around amid the lions and the leopards. You stay in your Land Rover. You stay in your safari van, and you look out the windows or you look out the pop top at these animals. I know by experience how badly that can work out if you violate those guidelines.

  David Quammen

  Animal, Land, Work Out

  "Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2016.

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• You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.

  Patrick Swayze

  Giants, Knows

  "FOR YOUNG VIEWERS; Into Africa: Patrick Swayze's 19th-Century Eco Trip" by Jody Alesandro, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 2004.

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