Bites Quotes - Page 27

• In every country dogges bite.

  George Herbert

  Country

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• Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues.

  Barbara Seranella

  Successful, People, Tongue

  Barbara Seranella (2001). “Unfinished Business: A Munch Mancini Crime Novel”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

  Ed Westwick

  Years, Long, Flesh

  Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. March 22, 2009.

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• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Children, Fighting, Thinking

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• I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'

  Joe Nichols

  Fighting, Thinking, Doe

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• Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Snakes, Long, Cards

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• I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.

  Russell Wilson

  Kids, Stuff, Used

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• You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

  Paul Merson

  Noses, Want, Faces

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• Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.

  Steven Pinker

  Running, Dog, Men

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.118, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.

  Queen Latifah

  Thinking, Trying, Accomplish

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• From Shane's Point of View: Jester talking to Shane: "What's the matter? You afraid you'd bite your skinny little girlfriend?" Jester laughed. "She's already someone else's, you know. I can smell the bite on her. He's marked her." Myrnin. "Shut up," I said, and kicked him in the face.

  Rachel Caine

  Girlfriend, Views, Talking

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• Well,” Tessa said, sighting along the line of the knife, “you behave as if you dislike me. In fact, you behave as if you dislike us all.” “I don’t,” Gabriel said. “I just dislike him.” He pointed at Will. “Dear me,” said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. “Is it because I’m better-looking than you?

  Cassandra Clare

  Knives, Dislike Me, Apples

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.661, Simon and Schuster

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• So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

  Jonathan Swift

  Fleas, Ems, Mathematics

  On Poetry" l. 337 (1733)

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• When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.

  Yann Martel

  Dog, Atheist, Pain

  Yann Martel (2012). “Self”, p.12, Vintage Canada

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• This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

  Mike Weir

  Missing You, Sports, Golf

  PGA Championship press conference, www.pga.com. August 15, 2003.

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• The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside.But on the inside there is nothing-only the bare gingerbread walls.It is not a real house-not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room.That's when the stories can move in.They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite.

  Vera Nazarian

  Sweet, Wall, Real

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• If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?

  Aesop

  Friendship, Enemy, Fawns

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.74, Aesop

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• By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

  Sydney Pollack

  Hero, Mean, Thinking

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• Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Children, Parent

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.

  Michael Chabon

  Stories, World, Stuff

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• Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Men, White

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Flavor, May

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• It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

  Jim Dale

  Fishing, Laughing, Feelings

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

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• Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

  James M. Barrie

  Men, Rivers, Lakes

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• When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

  John Burroughs

  Heart, Fishing, Bait

  "The Art of Seeing Things: Essays".

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