Snakes Quotes - Page 5

• Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

  James Cameron

  Horse, Kings, Broken

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• No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown litde wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with those litde flowers planted by the wind.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Dream, Flower

  "Katherine Mansfield Notebooks".

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• I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

  Laurie Anderson

  Written

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• This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

  Walt Whitman

  Dog, Mouths, Nests

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.134, NYU Press

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• Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

  Jon Stewart

  Humorous, Talking, Two

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996 - ....

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• Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

  Stephen King

  Running, Eye, People

  Stephen King (2014). “Big Driver”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

  Steve Irwin

  Sticks, Crocodiles, Turns

  "Interview with Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin -- Part 5: Don't Try This at Home". Interview with Sarah Simpson, www.scientificamerican.com. March 26, 2001.

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• Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Journey, Yesterday

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• I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cost, Want, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.93, A&C Black

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• Do you have a favorite constalation, Percy?' I was still kind of wondering about the little green snakes he'd shoved into his jogging shorts, but i said. 'Uh, I like Hercules.' 'Why?' 'Well... because he had rotten luck. Even worse than mine. It makes me feel better." The jogger chuckled. 'Not because he was strong and famouse and all that?' 'No.

  Rick Riordan

  Strong, Feel Better, Luck

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• I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.

  Willa Cather

  Bigs, Fellows

  Willa Cather (2013). “My Antonia Thrift Study Edition”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Heart, Men, Oil

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.97, BenBella Books

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• When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

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• Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, History, Turns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.159, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Nature, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.10, Library of America

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• God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Desire

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suffering, Way, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.39, A&C Black

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• Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption;
  Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man;
  Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;
  Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Heart, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1094, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.

  Shana Alexander

  Struggle, Fighting, Connections

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• The body is a rock; the arms are snakes

  Claudio Arrau

  Rocks, Arms, Body

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• It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Dog, Stars, Dust

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.461, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

  Morgan Brittany

  Bullying, Spite, Persons

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• i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Giving Up, Who I Am, Skins

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.317, A&C Black

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• All of us knew he was a snake when we voted for him

  Patricia Ireland

  Stupid, Humorous

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