Sheep Quotes - Page 22

• Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.

  Andrew Vachss

  Asks, Ifs

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “False Allegations”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Significance, Happened

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• Trust the Lord. He is the good shepherd. He knows His sheep. And His sheep know His voice.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Voice, Shepherds, Lord

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• There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Reflection, Men

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• Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.

  Joanne Harris

  Stupid, May, Shepherds

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.17, Penguin

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• Its better to live a goat than 100 sheep.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Goats

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• One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.

  Dion Fortune

  Organization, Black, Blame

  Dion Fortune (2011). “Psychic Self-Defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.119, Weiser Books

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• The ACLU spent this entire holiday season protesting public displays of the nativity scene. Yeah, that's the problem with America right now: Public displays of Christ's birth, that's the problem. It's unbelievable to me. The ACLU will no longer fight for your right to put up a nativity scene, but they'll fight for the right of the local freak who wants to stumble onto the scene and have sex with one of the sheep.

  Dennis Miller

  Sex, Holiday, Fighting

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• It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

  Terry Goodkind

  Mind, Doe, Different

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.720, Head of Zeus

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• Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

  John Mason Brown

  Education, Thinking, People

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• When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Eye, Years

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. -Marvin

  Douglas Adams

  Dream, Sweet, Hate

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.126, Pan Macmillan

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• The overseer wouldna speak to me of Ian, but he told me other things that would curl your hair, if it wasna already curled up like sheep's wool." He glanced at me, and a half-smile lit his face, inspite of his obvious perturbation. "Judging by the state of your hair, Sassenach, I should say that it's going to rain verra soon now.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Rain, Hair, Judging

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• Out on the moors, The lonely moors, I roll around in sheep poo. Heathcliff, it's youuuuu, I hate you, I love you tooooo. Let me in, I'm here, it's meeeee, Catheeeeeeee. Look out of your windooooow.

  Louise Rennison

  Lonely, Hate, Love You

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• As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Son, Shepherds, Twenties

  Francis August Schaeffer (1976). “How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture”, Good News Pub

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• The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.

  Glen Duncan

  Animal, Facts, Teach

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out; yet the Lord by His almighty power preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty-four of us taken alive and carried captive

  Mary Rowlandson

  Christian, Lying, Taken

  Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.10, Diderot Publishing

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• The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

  Aristotle

  Science, Animal, Numbers

  Aristotle, Johann Gottlob Schneider (1862). “Aristotle's History of Animals: In Ten Books”, p.31

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• Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, People, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

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• Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?'

  Dave Mustaine

  Brother, Sea, Land

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• To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano sound acts as a prism through which all musical and non-musical sounds may be filtered. The grunts of sheep, the braying of mules, the popping of champagne corks, the sighs of unrequited love, not to mention the full lexicon of sounds available to all other instruments-including whistles, scrapes, bleatings, caresses, thuds, hoots, plus sweet and sour pluckings-fall within the sovereignty of this most bare and dissembling chameleon.

  Russell Sherman

  Sweet, Fall, Unrequited Love

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• Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states, in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Ideas, Degrees

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1124, Library of America

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• To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Legs

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• I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.

  Bill McLaren

  Hands, Orange, Balls

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• Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon.

  Dionne Warwick

  Wall, Memories, Moon

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