Bites Quotes - Page 19

• Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

  Francois Rabelais

  Funny, Running, Dog

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Gratitude, People, Support

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• Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Glasses, Broken

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• Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

  Pliny the Elder

  Dog, Fall, Wine

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• If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is watching Murakami come at his obsessions from so many different angles. There's a panoply of strangeness between these covers (.....) This collection shows Murakami at his dynamic, organic best. As a chronicler of contemporary alienation, a writer for the Radiohead age, he shows how taut and thin our routines have become, how ill-equipped we are to contend with the forces that threaten to disrupt us.

  Antoine Wilson

  Sleep, Age, Different

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• I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is the way people look when they are lost in thought, when their face becomes angry or serious, when they bite their lip, the way they glance, the way they look down when they walk, when they are alone and smoking a cigarette, when they smirk, the way they half smile, the way they try and hold back tears, the way when their face says they want to say something but can’t, the way they look at someone they want or love… I love the way people look when they do these things. It’s… beautiful.

  Clemence Poesy

  Beautiful, Interesting, People

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• I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

  Shirley Bassey

  Jealous, Men, Hands

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• My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Heart, Skins, My Heart

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• No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.

  RuPaul

  Pie, Want, Cherries

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• While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Wall, Hate, Men

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• You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place.

  Bob Proctor

  Taken, Snakes, Long

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• You don't bite the women of other males.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Males

  Sarah J. Maas (2014). “Heir of Fire”, p.122, A&C Black

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• The men who have gotten women pregnant need to be accountable if we are. If we are going to jail, the men are coming too. Religious rhetoric will bite its own ass trying to nail only women in a two-person process.

  Neko Case

  Religious, Men, Two

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• I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

  Franz Kafka

  Believe, Book, Blow

  "I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings".

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• The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Dog, Sorry

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.415, Princeton University Press

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• I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.

  David Lynch

  Hurt, Teeth, Painting

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• Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

  Vanna Bonta

  Kissing, Cinnamon, Stolen Kisses

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• We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an ex­ternal, active, work project.

  Ernest Becker

  Artist, Way, Might

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Dog, Feelings, Feeling Sad

  "My Favorite Things" (song) (1959)

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• I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

  Leon Kass

  Sound, My Thoughts, Sound Bites

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• Contrary to popular myth, werewolves myth, werewolves are born, not made. No matter how many times they bite someone, that person will not turn, though they will probably bleed profusely and will definitely be annoyed.

  Molly Harper

  Annoyed, Matter, Werewolf

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• Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.

  Hal Duncan

  Destiny, Arses, Sometimes

  Hal Duncan (2014). “Scruffians!: Stories of Better Sodomites”, p.102, Lethe Press

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• The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

  Carl Sagan

  Ignorance, Media, Sound

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Dog, Bark

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• The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Men, Poison

  "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" l. 29 (1766)

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