Sheep Quotes - Page 22

• Set theory in sheep's clothing.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Theory, Clothings

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1986). “Philosophy of Logic”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.

  Joan Robinson

  Giving, Hatred, May

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.22, Springer

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• Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that what he is talking about can never really be accepted here because to see it one has to be free of social authority and this is an institution of social authority. Quality for sheep is what the shepherd says. And if you take a sheep and put it up at the timberline at night when the wind is roaring, that sheep will be panicked half to death and will call and call until the shepherd comes, or comes the wolf.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Ocean, Night, Wind

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• The moon was out and I saw some sheep.
  I saw some sheep take a walk in their sleep.
  By the light of the moon, by the light of a star,
  They walked all night from near to far.
  I would never walk, I would take a car.

  Dr. Seuss

  Stars, Sleep, Moon

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• ... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

  Benjamin Franklin

  Italian

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.301

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• No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!

  Morris West

  Running, Men, Light

  "The Heretic" by Morris West, 1968.

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• some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.

  Marjorie Holmes

  People, Religion, Looks

  Marjorie Holmes (1985). “I'Ve Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations With God”, Doubleday Books

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• Some of the parables that Matthew records and that Jesus delivered as part of his Olivet Discourse-such as the ten virgins and their lamps or the servants and the talents they were given-are some of the best known of Jesus' teachings. Reading them in the context of his prophecies about the end of the world, however, makes them clearly parables of preparation. To be on his right hand with his "sheep" rather than at his left hand with the "goats" at his return, we must prepare ourselves now.

  Eric D. Huntsman

  Jesus, Teaching, Reading

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• A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Daughter, President, Goats

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• It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out; yet the Lord by His almighty power preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty-four of us taken alive and carried captive

  Mary Rowlandson

  Christian, Lying, Taken

  Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.10, Diderot Publishing

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• To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Legs

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• It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was Jason Derulo or Oasis, they're always on a tractor, they're always surrounded by sheep and always in boots. And all the songs are about enjoying farming, and this is all you've had for 10 years - you'd think you were going mad.

  Caitlin Moran

  Song, Thinking, Artist

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• Out on the moors, The lonely moors, I roll around in sheep poo. Heathcliff, it's youuuuu, I hate you, I love you tooooo. Let me in, I'm here, it's meeeee, Catheeeeeeee. Look out of your windooooow.

  Louise Rennison

  Lonely, Hate, Love You

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• Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody makes a move, get out of focus, cuts loose, and I see why Jesus never wrote systematic theology. So you and I can give thanks that the locus of Christian thinking appears to be shifting from North America and northern Europe where people write rules and obey them, to places like Africa and Latin America where people still know how to dance.

  William Henry Willimon

  Christian, Jesus, Latin

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• Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. -Marvin

  Douglas Adams

  Dream, Sweet, Hate

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.126, Pan Macmillan

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• Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

  John Mason Brown

  Education, Thinking, People

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• Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, People, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

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• Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
  Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Heart, Lost

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.21

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• The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

  Aristotle

  Science, Animal, Numbers

  Aristotle, Johann Gottlob Schneider (1862). “Aristotle's History of Animals: In Ten Books”, p.31

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• To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano sound acts as a prism through which all musical and non-musical sounds may be filtered. The grunts of sheep, the braying of mules, the popping of champagne corks, the sighs of unrequited love, not to mention the full lexicon of sounds available to all other instruments-including whistles, scrapes, bleatings, caresses, thuds, hoots, plus sweet and sour pluckings-fall within the sovereignty of this most bare and dissembling chameleon.

  Russell Sherman

  Sweet, Fall, Unrequited Love

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• Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon.

  Dionne Warwick

  Wall, Memories, Moon

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• Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states, in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Ideas, Degrees

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1124, Library of America

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• There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-paleolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. That group of nomads, cameleers, sheep and goat herders, farmers, and guerilla fighters lent credibility to the idea, for they snored so thunderously and with such persistent ferocity through the long, cold night that they would've frightened a pride of ravenous lions into scattering like startled mice.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Sleep, Pride, Night

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• Who can keep us from recreating our life as we would like it to be-as it could, and should be? No one but ourselves can keep us from being artists, rather than marching forward like mere consumers, corporate robots, sheep. No one but ourselves can keep us from dancing with life instead of goose-stepping. In every moment recognizing our own creative imagination, the living picture we paint on the canvas of our lives. Everything is imagination. And imagination is freedom, but it can also be conditioning, bondage.

  Surya Das

  Artist, Dancing, Imagination

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• I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.

  Bill McLaren

  Hands, Orange, Balls

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