Lions Quotes - Page 12

• Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true - I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia.

  Edward Abbey

  Fate, Pigs, Utah

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Giving, Ass

  Thomas Paine (2016). “Common Sense”, p.12, Coventry House Publishing

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• The novelist does not long to see the
  lion eat grass. He realizes that one and
  the same God created the wolf and the
  lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his
  work was good.”

  Andre Gide

  Long, Novelists, Doe

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• Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

  John Steinbeck

  Grateful, Pride, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction”, Viking Press

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• We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Christian, Kings

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1869). “Gleanings Among the Sheaves”, p.90

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• This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Men, Elephants

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.229

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• Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,
  And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly;
  Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,
  Subjected tribute to commanding love,
  Against whose fury and unmatched force
  The aweless lion could not wage the fight
  Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Fighting, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.305, Race Point Pub

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• The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

  John Climacus

  Men, Greed, Pet

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.28, Paulist Press

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• Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jesus, Lying, Mean

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• The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Word Of God

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• One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

  William Blake

  Government, Law, Oppression

  "William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose".

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• Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, War, Party

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• Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Sunset, Night, Flames

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• My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.

  Og Mandino

  Heart, Procrastination, Greatness

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• I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepperd. I am lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sleep

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.1, Bantam

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• I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Heart, Race

  Speech at Westminster Hall, London, 30 Nov. 1954

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• The Roman arena was technically a level playing field. But on one side were the lions with all the weapons, and on the other the Christians with all the blood. That's not a level playing field. That's a slaughter. And so is putting people into the economy without equipping them with capital, while equipping a tiny handful of people with hundreds and thousands of times more than they can use.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Christian, Blood, People

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• War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.

  Eric L. Haney

  Selfish, War, Men

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• Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Keys, Insanity, Miserable

  "Fictional character: Sloan". "Wanted", www.imdb.com. June 12, 2008.

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• My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better.'

  Robin Williams

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 25, 2013.

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• I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.

  Burt Reynolds

  Regret, Heart, Class

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

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

  Lil Wayne

  Cobras, Jungle

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• That [Pagani] Zonda, really! It’s like a lion in orange dungarees. Kind of fierce, but ridiculous all at the same time.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Orange, Ridiculous, Fierce

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• Id like to be a lion... they are very family-oriented. Unfortunately. too many wild animals are afraid at what man can do to them.

  Connie Stevens

  Animal, Men, Family Oriented

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• It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn't get it.

  John Waters

  Gay, Black And White, Animal

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