Hyenas Quotes

• A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

  Bob Hope

  Laughter, Heart, Humor

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• Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should question your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

  Suzy Kassem

  Beautiful, Song, Laughter

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• We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Men, Humanity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Integrity, Pure, Values

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.230, Macmillan

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• There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Garden, Literature

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• A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1092, Library of America

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• Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

  Lewis Carroll

  Bones, Hungry

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland Collection”, Lulu.com

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• HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

  Ambrose Bierce

  Night, Doe, Students

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.94, 谷月社

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• I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

  Henry Rollins

  Meals, Employment, Lions

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• Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

  H. Jay Dinshah

  Equality, Men, Ethics

  "Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism" by Victoria Moran, (p. 32), 1985.

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• I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

  George Chapman

  Song, Courage, Yield

  Eastward Ho act 5, sc. 1 (1605).

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• Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner. Love is raw, and violent, and instantaneous. You don’t fall in love; you get trampled by it.

  Bart Yates

  Falling In Love, Love You, Eye

  Bart Yates (2006). “The Brothers Bishop”, p.210, Kensington Books

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• Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Dog, Heart, Feelings

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• You will always be a hyena.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Arthur Rimbaud (2011). “A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat (Second Edition)”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now the enemy, as is the notion of settling. Get hungry- hyena hungry. Get fired up. Find your backbone, and your wings. Flap 'em. It's the only way you'll be able to fly.

  J. C. Hutchins

  Dream, War, Past

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• All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.

  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

  Thinking, Sheep, Two

  Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (2010). “The Leopard: Revised and with new material”, p.143, Random House

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• My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

  Phyllis Diller

  Father, Laughing, Used

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.115, Penguin

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• A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Night, Men, Lions

  Sheldon Vanauken (2011). “A Severe Mercy”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the sunset. What creativity!
  Stretching the neck of the giraffe, putting the flutter in the mockingbird's wings, planting the giggle in the hyena. And then, as a finale to a brilliant performance, He made a human who had the unique honour to bear the stamp, In His Image.

  Max Lucado

  Stars, Zebras, Sunset

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• There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Men, Hunting

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• As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie.

  Henry Miller

  Departed, Dawn, Alive

  "A Henry Miller reader".

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• But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Strong, Dark, Night

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2009). “In the Forests of the Night”, p.75, Laurel Leaf

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• In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

  Aberjhani

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Laughing, Silence

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• Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas?

  Rachel Caine

  Mean Girls, Hot, Packs

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Glass Houses”, p.7, Allison & Busby

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