Tigers Quotes - Page 15

• You just don't go in there with Tiger Woods and say, ‘Oh, do this.' Sean Foley was quoted, a month after he worked with Tiger, as saying ‘You can't get this guy to listen to anything.'

  Hank Haney

  Guy, Woods, Months

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• Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

  Yann Martel

  Risk, Reason, Beats

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.424, Canongate Books

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• I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal. Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.

  Alan Bradley

  Thinking, Long Ago, Oatmeal

  Alan Bradley (2011). “A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.145, Delacorte Press

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• 'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

  Lewis Carroll

  Talking, Wish, Lilies

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the reluctant love drained painfully from me as blood drains from a deep wound. The tigers lapped my love's blood and remained enemies. The inhabitants of the day laughed at the gift I wanted to bring them, and I shut myself in my inner room to escape the betrayal of their arrogant mouths.

  Anna Kavan

  Love, Betrayal, Blood

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• When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Teaching, School

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• An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

  Confucius

  Philosophical, Beer, Government

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• Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

  Maureen Dowd

  Exercise, Meals, Might

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• Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Debt, Lost

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• Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

  Amy Chua

  Creativity, Kids, Independent

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• Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.

  Amy Chua

  Mother, Judgmental, Enough

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• When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

  John Cleese

  Advice, Firsts, Raspberries

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• I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree.

  Jethro Tull

  Animal, Snakes, Want

  Song: Bungle in the Jungle

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• I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.

  Elvis Presley

  Animal, Play, Lions

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• Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Christian, Good Life, Nice

  William Sloane Coffin (1985). “Living the Truth in a World of Illusions”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

  Murray Kempton

  Children, Men, Earth

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.

  Peter Lynch

  College, Air, Flying

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• It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Cutting, Hair, Listening

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• Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.

  Lin Yutang

  Husband, Father, Moving

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• No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Bombs, Ruthlessness

  The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940

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• I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Adventure, Boys, Imagination

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• It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

  Edgerrin James

  Years, Politics, Chickens

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• Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.

  Mitch McConnell

  Years, Politics, Bills

  "McConnell: Tiger Woods, John Edwards Had Better Years Than Stimulus". www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2010.

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• It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Nice, Golf

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• Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Life, Time, Fire

  "Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

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