Cobras Quotes

• Cobras are magical. They can stand up on just energy alone.

  Paz de la Huerta

  Energy

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• Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.

  Bruce Lee

  Should, Strikes, Felt

  "Tao of Jeet Kune Do".

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• In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Rising Up, Ego, Serpent

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2644, Manonmani Publishers

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• A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

  Will Cuppy

  Home, Rats, Clear

  "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• I've never actually met one in the wild, but I have seen a king cobra. They go towards people, they rear up six feet tall and they're very aggressive and they are very fast. And one bite means certain death. So if I encountered a king cobra in the wild I would be very alarmed.

  David Attenborough

  Kings, Mean, Feet

  "The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.

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• The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.

  Sean Young

  Angel, Cities, Devil

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

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• May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.

  Alexander the Great

  Revenge, Teeth, May

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• Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don't interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.

  Ajahn Chah

  May, Poisonous, Activity

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• I am from the jungle where the lion eats the cobra

  Lil Wayne

  Lions, Jungle

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• A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

  Robert E. Howard

  Women, Emotional, Blind

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “ROBERT E. HOWARD Ultimate Collection – 300+ Cult Classics, Adventure Novels, Western, Horror & Detective Stories, Historical Books (Including Poetry, Essays, Articles & Letters) - ALL in One Volume): Sword & Sorcery Fiction Including Complete Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane and Kull the Conqueror Series, as well as Weird Fiction, Fantasy Stories of the Weird West, The Cthulhu Mythos Tales and more”, p.338, e-artnow

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• Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world without thorns, without shadows, without hawks. Change this world. Use your body like a tool meant to be used up, discarded, and replaced. Better every life you touch. We will reach the final chapter. When we have eyes that can stare into the sun, eyes that only squint for the Shenikah, then we will see laughing children pulling cobras by their tails, and hawks and rabbits playing tag.

  N.D. Wilson

  Children, Eye, Laughing

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• I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.

  Wally Lamb

  Moon, Snakes, Skulls

  Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

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• Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

  Jim Woodring

  Dream, Real, Shapes

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

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• Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

  Radhanath Swami

  Mother, Teacher, Rivers

  "Bhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Uh oh, it's beer o'clock, I think I'm sober.
  How about we think this over, over a can of King Cobra?

  Daniel Dumile

  Kings, Rap, Beer

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• We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Blow

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2644, Manonmani Publishers

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• Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult.

  Tom Robbins

  Hands, Zippers, Revolution

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.299, Bantam

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• The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.

  Dale Carnegie

  Kings, Kickers, Poison

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

  Shauna Singh Baldwin

  Winning, Battle, Fiction

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• You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Fire, Play, Elephants

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• What are you? Weak? Don’t tell me you want me to spare this pathetic animal when it wouldn’t show you any such mercy. Believe me, it’s better to take the head off a cobra before the cobra strikes you. (Xypher) A cobra can’t help what it is. Why should you punish it because it’s doing what the gods created it to do? (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Animal, Want

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• I was, like, a brown belt, which is pretty good. I entered a tournament once, and I punched the guy in the throat and got disqualified. I realized - I don't know if you're familiar with "Karate Kid," but the bad guys in that are called Cobra Kai, and they're, like, the evil karate guys. And then when I went to the tournament, I realized that's what we were; we were like the Cobra Kai of the Jewish karate community.

  Seth Rogen

  Kids, Evil, Community

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Snakes, History

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• One of the reasons I appreciate being in a Pirates uniform is the greats who have worn it in the past. There was Bill Mazeroski hitting the walk-off home run to win the World Series. There was Roberto Clemente wearing the number 21. There was Pops: Willie Stargell. There was Dave Parker: Cobra.

  Andrew McCutchen

  Running, Home, Winning

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• I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil. So violent in their hostility to me and my work. OK, wait, wait, wait. That's a lie. I do read the responses--and get mesmerized, like cobra hypnosis. But I laugh (mostly) at the trolls, and think about what tiny little weenies they must have. (They seem to be mostly men.) And then ALL these smart, funny people leap to my defense, which is medicine, and fills me with love and thankfulness.

  Anne Lamott

  Smart, Lying, Men

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