Snakes Quotes - Page 12

• From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

  Margot Asquith

  War, Men, Expression

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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• We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

  Glenn Danzig

  Circles, Skulls, Skins

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• The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Eye, Wind

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• Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Gliding, Purpose

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

  William Christopher Handy

  Home, Wind, Rivers

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Records, Bleeding

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.

  Maneka Gandhi

  Python, Skins, Fur

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• When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

  Elvis Presley

  Integrity, Character, Hypocrisy

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• I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes
  of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe
  it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts...
  I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Hate, Believe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1906). “Famous Speeches, Complete ...”

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• Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.

  J. C. Ryle

  Hands, Idols, Heaven

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• I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House

  Deval Patrick

  Names, House, St Patrick

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• Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.

  Thomas Harris

  Wrestling, Dark, Echoes

  Thomas Harris (2007). “Hannibal Rising”, Dell

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• Jake 'The Snake's' two best friends are Jim Beam & Jack Daniels.

  Jerry Lawler

  Two Best Friends, Jake, Jack Daniels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball....this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass.

  Gary Danielson

  Moving, Doctors, Florida

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• There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex is only about sex in snakes, or sex in egg-laying reptiles. Although a biologist's job in part is to interpret what organisms do in a broader context, that context does not, and should not, need to include a lesson for human beings. This is true regardless of whether the lesson is something we would like to teach, which means that using animals as vehicles for nonsexist thinking is just as out of bounds as using them to keep women barefoot and pregnant.

  Marlene Zuk

  Sex, Jobs, Mean

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• The first time I showed the tattoo it was big news in the newspaper. 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's not a snake!

  Li Na

  Tattoo, News, Firsts

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• But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.

  Earl Long

  Favors, Providence, Exception

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• A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Water, Hot, Pajamas

  'Snake' (1923)

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• Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world." "Who told you this?" His eyes widen. "A fearsome creature with a head full of snakes!" "You musn't fear her," I say, taking the man's hand and leading his toward the river. "She's as tame as a pussycat. She'd probably lick your hand given the chance." "Didn't seem harmless," he whispers, shuddering. "Yes, well, things are not always as they appear, sir, and we must learn to judge for ourselves.

  Libba Bray

  Eye, Men, Hands

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• What’s the gun for? (Leta) I would lie and say it’s for bears or snakes, but mostly I use it for trespassers. (Aiden) Wow, Dexter, I’m impressed. Since we’re not in Miami and you haven’t a boat to hide the hacked-up bodies at sea, where are you keeping them? (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lying, Gun, Sea

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• As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.

  Will Cuppy

  Spring, Passion, Men

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Summer, Kings

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• I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.

  John Green

  Morning, Trying, Poison

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.75, A&C Black

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• Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Eels, Assembly

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• Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Stars, Fall, Biting

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.697, Macmillan

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