Sheep Quotes - Page 8

• Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

  Aesop

  Educational, Wolves In Sheep's Clothing, Clothings

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• The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Father, Believe, Heart

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.50, Revell

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• And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Army, Men, Eight

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• Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.

  Vance Havner

  Lord, Disciple, Invited

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• I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

  Lisa Bonet

  Grandmother, Racism, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Children, Boys, Cows

  The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2007.

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• I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

  Nicole Kidman

  Baby, Jesus, School

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Oct 12, 2016

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• In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate.

  Saint Augustine

  Miracle, Catholic, Church

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.1259, Aeterna Press

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• Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Science, Heaven, Sage

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• Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.

  Densey Clyne

  Wisdom, Fall, Blessing

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• Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Reader, Pens

  "Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977".

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• I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Losing Control, Losing Everything

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• Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Flower, Sky, Looks

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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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• I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.

  Pablo Picasso

  Dog, Real, Passion

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Ian’s the black sheep.” “I thought I was the black sheep,” said Seth, sounding almost hurt. “No. You’re the unfocused artistic one. I’m the responsible one. Ian’s the wild, hedonistic one.” “What’s hedonistic?” asked Kendall. Her father considered. “It means you run up a lot of credit card bills you can’t pay, change jobs a lot, and have a lot of…lady friends.

  Richelle Mead

  Running, Hurt, Jobs

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.198, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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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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• He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep.

  Dorothy Eden

  Sarcastic, Crisis

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• Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Degrees, Lions

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.439, Modern Library

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• People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Boys, Talking

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.20, Harper Collins

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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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• And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

  John the Apostle

  Jesus, Father, Oxen

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• What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature. We now know that an adult mammalian cell can fire up all the dormant genetic instructions that shut down as it divides and specializes and ages, and thus can become a source of new life. You can outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology.
  Writing after Wilmut's successful cloning of the sheep, Dolly, that research on the cloning of human beings cannot be suppressed.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Life, Writing, Science

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• Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

  Denis Healey

  Sarcastic

  On being criticized by Sir Geoffrey Howe in the House of Commons, 'Hansard' 14 June 1978, col. 1027

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