Lions Quotes - Page 31

• But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

  Lawrence Hill

  Writing, Heart, Sleep

  Lawrence Hill (2009). “The Book of Negroes”, p.117, Random House

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• You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Night, Eternity, Darling

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.604, Hamilton Books

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• Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute a heterosexual man looks at her, all he can think about is – well, her mouth, and – ” “Emma?” Torie’s own mouth gaped in astonishment. Patrick crossed his legs. “Maybe we’re not talking about the same person. British accent? Good appetite? Hums songs from The Lion King when she doesn’t think anybody’s listening?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Song, Kings, Believe

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• Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall

  Homer

  Hate, Fall, Men

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad & The Odyssey”, p.337, Booklassic

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• "Jeez, was that a lion? Please tell me it’s behind bars." "It’s a zoo, Iggy,” Nudge said, taking his arms and leading him. "Everything’s behind bars."

  James Patterson

  Zoos, Bars, Arms

  "Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment". Book by James Patterson, April 11, 2005.

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• Never look a gift lion in the mouth.

  Daniel Handler

  Looks, Mouths

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• Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

  Robert Jordan

  Hunting, Trying, May

  Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.199, Macmillan

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• The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

  Michael Ondaatje

  Hair, Long, Sorrow

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “In the Skin of a Lion”, p.8, Vintage

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• When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse or .even a lion may give you companionship. When you don't know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can

  Jean M. Auel

  Horse, Practice, Giving

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• He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beach, Cat, Fighting

  Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.9, Hueber Verlag

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• Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of crocodile with a lion's mane. The front half of its body was a lion, but the back end was sleek, brown, and fat - a hippo, I decided. The odd bit was, the animal was tiny - I mean, no larger than an average poodle, which I suppose made him a hippodoodle.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Animal, Average

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• Zia," I said, "that's a goddess. She defeated Bast. What chance do you have?" Zia held up her staff and the carved lion's head burst into flames - a small red fireball so bright, it lit the entire room. "I am a scribe in the House of LIfe, Sadie Kane. I am trained to fight gods.

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Flames, House

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Bible, Devil, Roaring

  Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2010). “Wild Ride”, p.187, Macmillan

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• But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a rain forest now, am I? I won't even be able to watch old DVD's about them without electricity. What does the future hold? It's like going back to the middle ages. Nobody knowing what was going on beyond their front doorstep. All I'll ever know is this. This little bit of London.

  Charlie Higson

  Rain, Knowing, Dvds

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• Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.

  William Shakespeare

  Coward, Matter, Instinct

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.281

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• My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Work Out, Generations

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2185, Manonmani Publishers

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• You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Men, Devil

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• People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain climber what he feels when he sees a mountain; a lion tamer what goes through his mind when he meets a new lion; a doctor confronted with a beautiful malfunctioning body. The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Beautiful, Running, Dream

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• You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

  Jim Butcher

  Motivational, Breakfast, Dens

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.98, Penguin Group

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• I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Kings, Sorry

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year With Aslan: Words of Wisdom and Reflection from the Chronicles of Narnia”, p.3, HarperCollins UK

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• In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats

  Roberto Bolano

  Cat, Past, Lost

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• There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.

  Stendhal

  Expression, Law, Suffering

  "Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)". Book by Stendhal (Volume II, Chapter XLIV), November 1830.

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• Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Horse, Stupid, Silly

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• We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Laughing, Silence

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• Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?" "Yep." "Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?" "Nope it's a pie.

  Ilona Andrews

  Moon, Pie, Pitchforks

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