Sheep Quotes - Page 7

• It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

  Will Rogers

  Cowboy, Genius, Goats

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• Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Liberty, Fields, Remember

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jupiter, Act 3, 1943.

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• There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.

  Claud Cockburn

  Mad

  Claud Cockburn (1956). “A Discord of Trumpets: An Autobiography”

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• I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Government, Sides, Woods

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• His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread.

  Tom Hayden

  Funny, Baseball, Dog

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• If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Together, Enough, Herds

  Maria V. Snyder (2011). “Outside In”, p.7, Harlequin

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• Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

  Benito Mussolini

  Italian, Race, People

  "Fascism and Democracy in the Human Mind : A Bridge Between Mind and Society" by Israel W. Charny, (p. 23), 2006.

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• I think herd mentality is a good thing overall. Because if every sheep had to figure out the velocity of the wolf and their personal risk, that would take forever.

  Neal Barnard

  Thinking, Forever, Risk

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

  Benito Mussolini

  Inspirational, Funny, Years

  "ITALY: Duce (1922-43)". content.time.com. August 2, 1943.

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• You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.

  Amarillo Slim

  Skins, Hundred

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• Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

  Robert Greene

  Shepherds, Strikes

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2014

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• the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

  Ouida

  Wall, Moving, Government

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• What is this life if, full of care,
  We have no time to stand and stare.
  No time to stand beneath the boughs
  And stare as long as sheep or cows.
  No time to see, when woods we pass,
  Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
  No time to see, in broad daylight,
  Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
  No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
  And watch her feet, how they can dance.
  No time to wait till her mouth can
  Enrich that smile her eyes began.
  A poor life this if, full of care,
  We have no time to stand and stare.

  W. H. Davies

  Spiritual, Stars, Eye

  W. H. Davies (2015). “The True Traveller: A Reader”, p.264, Carcanet Press Ltd

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• Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

  Frederic Goudy

  Design, Stealing

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• When I look up at the clouds I see so many animals, mostly sheep who have lost their limbs and heads.

  Demetri Martin

  Animal, Clouds, Looks

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2012

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• If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.

  Garth Brooks

  Inspirational, Heart, Mark

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• A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.

  Mitch McConnell

  Sleep, Night, Trouble

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• I never really was good at being a family general man, really. I hardly ever spent any time with my mum and dad whatever, really, or brothers or sisters. We just really didn't get along. I was pretty much like the black sheep of the family, to be honest.

  Andrew Chan

  Brother, Dad, Men

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait,
  His day's hot task hath ended in the west:
  The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late;
  The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest;
  And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light,
  Do summon us to part, and bid good night.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Goodnight, Clouds

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.178, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.

  A. E. Housman

  Love, Mother, Morning

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.123, Delphi Classics

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• Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit him, unless they are either made to his measure, or he has a whole warehouseful to choose from: and is it easier to fit him with a life than with a coat, or are human beings more like one another in their whole physical and spiritual conformation than in the shape of their feet? If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model.

  John Stuart Mill

  Spiritual, Men, Feet

  John Stuart Mill “Annotated On Liberty with English Grammar Exercises: by John Stuart Mill (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Often Is, Blood, Soul

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• Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.

  Pope Francis

  Ninety Nine, Long, Challenges

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• You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.

  Mike McDermott

  Skins

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• This is the blessed life-not anxious to see far in front, nor eager to choose the path, but quietly following behind the Shepherd, one step at a time. The Shepherd was always out in front of the sheep. He was down in front. Any attack upon them had to take him into account. Now God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.

  F.B. Meyer

  Blessed, Men, Shepherds

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