Sheep Quotes - Page 14

• We . . . exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge . . .

  Pope Paul III

  Exercise, Might, Earth

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• To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Lonely, Real, Cities

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• In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Children, Secret Places, Black

  Ellen Galinsky (1981). “Between generations: the six stages of parenthood”, Smithmark Pub

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• Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Lying, Sleep, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Hunting, Skeletons

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• The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep.

  Madame Roland

  Weakness, Ass, Howl

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• It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.

  John Ray

  Advice, Foolish, Counselor

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• Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

  Johnny Kelly

  Attorney, Jury, Assembling

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• Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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• Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.

  Frederic Goudy

  Men, Design, Typography

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• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

  George Washington

  Freedom, Taken, Fire

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• The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without a taste of scotch or rye. The cow drinks water by the ton And at eighteen is mostly done. The dog at fifteen cashes in Without the aid of rum or gin. The modest, sober, bone-dry hen Lays eggs for noggs and dies at ten. But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men Survive three-score years and ten. And some of us, though mighty few Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two.

  Charles Gavan Duffy

  Dog, Horse, Wine

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• In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

  James Agate

  Women, Expression, Characteristics

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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• I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

  Clifford Sifton

  Children, Thinking, Wife

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• To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely unsought, and we 'being in the way,' the angel of God, bright-haired joy, is sure to meet us.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Angel, Thinking, Joy

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• We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep.
  Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep.
  While the media elite declare what to think,
  I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.

  Otep Shamaya

  Sleep, Thinking, Media

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• It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us.

  Martin Luther

  Powerful, Flesh, Christ

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1961). “Word and Sacrament”

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• He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

  Seneca the Younger

  Eye, Ravens, Sick

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• Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Government, Sooner Or Later

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• Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds

  Henri La Fontaine

  Shepherds, Slaughterhouses, Meadows

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• The peoples are not awake...[There are dangers] which will render a world organization impossible.
  I foresee the renewal of...the secret bargaining behind closed doors. Peoples will be as before,
  the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
  International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries,
  established by the peoples and for the peoples.

  Henri La Fontaine

  Country, Doors, Organization

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• He looked beyond. He looked to the peoples of the Earth and saw the destruction of the family because of the lack of children. Paul VI was courageous. He was a good pastor. He warned his sheep about the wolves that were approaching, and from the heavens he blesses us today.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Heaven, Saws

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• A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Littles, Sometimes, Consideration

  Benjamin Franklin (1945). “Autobiographical writings”

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• Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Body, Cows, Morrow

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Dont put the sheep on the table.

  Gene Wilder

  Tables

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