Packs Quotes - Page 24

• There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Team, Player

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• I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

  Andrew Jackson

  Gun, Jugs, Cards

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• All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. ...Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Fighting, Thinking

  "The Blind Assassin". Book by Margaret Atwood, 2000.

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• I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.

  Tom Stoppard

  Fall, Thinking, Elephants

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• All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Struggle, Rely Upon, Survival

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• It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.

  Richard Bach

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

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• When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

  George R. R. Martin

  Friendship, Inspiring, Loneliness

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1473, Bantam

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• Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.

  Patti Smith

  Two, Pockets, World

  "A Minute With: Patti Smith on her photography show". Interview with Julie Mollins, www.reuters.com. January 16, 2013.

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• A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there.

  Steve Carell

  Heart, Mean, Blood

  "Steve Carell on How to Act Brilliant" by Nancy Miller, www.wired.com. April 21, 2008.

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• I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go​, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and my books are the first items I pack into a suitcase. I am the person who family and friends call when they need a book recommendation or cannot remember who wrote Heidi. My identity as a person is so entwined with my love of reading and books that I cannot separate the two.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Reading, Two

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• In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Skulls, Childhood, Parent

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• The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

  D. Wayne Lukas

  Inspirational, Leadership, Speed

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• Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Growth, Succeed

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• In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strength, Peace, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.5, Best Books on

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• History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

  George Santayana

  Fear, Lying, People

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• One can often trace the sources of a brand personality - here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element of the product. Of course, the personality is clearest and strongest when all the elements are consistent.

  Stephen King

  Business, Somewhere Else, Personality

  "Stephen King 1971: What is a brand?". www.campaignlive.co.uk. October 5, 2007.

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• I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Travel, Memorable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

  Roger Ebert

  Reading, Library Research, Rats

  "Critical Eye". Yahoo! Internet Life, September 1998.

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• In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.

  Farouk of Egypt

  Kings, Years, Cards

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• The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

  Horace

  Horse, Envy, Lazy

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• One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.

  Robert Benchley

  Travel, Self, Shells

  Robert Benchley (1928). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Or, David Cooperfield”

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• We are America.
  We are the coffin fillers.
  We are the grocers of death.
  We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.

  Anne Sexton

  America, United States, Coffins

  Anne Sexton, “The Firebombers”

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• Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.

  Horace Walpole

  Drs, Pieces, Ministers

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• Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.

  David O. McKay

  War, Soldier, Remember

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• Escape
  from the power of the hunting pack,
  and to know that wisdom is best
  and beauty
  sheer holiness.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Hunting, Holiness, Worship

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.228, New Directions Publishing

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