Sheep Quotes - Page 6

• No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Revolution, Status Quo, Browsing

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

  Saint Augustine

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• Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect day. He was born in the middle of the night during tax season to an unwed couple in a stable or a cave in a sheep field. That was God's way of showing us that nothing is perfect. Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, Couple, Night

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

  Plutarch

  Fighting, Decision, Fifty

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• Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

  Pythagoras

  Sweet, Horse, Men

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• A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.

  John Muir

  Men, Want, Littles

  John Muir (2011). “Wilderness Essays”, p.242, Gibbs Smith

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• Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Safety, Fence

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.244, Delacorte Press

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• All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

  Greg Bear

  Nice, America, Twenties

  Greg Bear (2003). “Darwin's Children”, p.125, Del Rey

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• No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Keys, Kingdoms

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• When a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Helping

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.

  Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville

  Cold, Providence, Temper

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• You are all lions – so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Lions, Way, Path

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• Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

  George Carlin

  Rain, Shrinks

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• In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Jobs, Ocean

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• Every man is responsible for defending every woman and every child. When the male no longer takes this role, when he no longer has the courage or feels the moral responsibility, then that society will no longer be a society where honor and virtue are esteemed. Laws and government cannot replace this personal caring and commitment. In the absence of the Warrior protector, the only way that a government can protect a society is to remove the freedom of the people. And the sons and daughters of lions become sheep.

  James Williams

  Daughter, Children, Commitment

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• If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Democracy, Majority, Cognition

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• A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Airports, Feelings, Flocks

  Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai”, p.152, Univ of California Press

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• The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.

  Bob Barr

  Moving, Cutting, Names

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• We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the same, and for exactly the same reason?

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Fashion, Laughing, Might

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• Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

  Yves Montand

  Believe, Vegetarian, Pacifist

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• I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Native American, Government, Law

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• The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing curse of apathy and start demanding constitutional accountability from our elected employees. How radically non-sheep of me.

  Ted Nugent

  Heart, Media, Government

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.

  Gary Larson

  Giving, Enemy, Steel

  Gary Larson (1995). “Gary Larson's the curse of Madame "C": a far side collection”

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• There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.

  Claud Cockburn

  Mad

  Claud Cockburn (1956). “A Discord of Trumpets: An Autobiography”

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• It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

  Will Rogers

  Cowboy, Genius, Goats

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