Snakes Quotes - Page 17

• Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.

  Stephen White

  Responsibility, Blame, Renowned

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• I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.

  Joe Hill

  Powerful, Adventure, Two

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• I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Liars, Moving

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.51, A&C Black

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• And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.

  James Agee

  Stars, Lying, Winter

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.66, Penguin

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• Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Voice, Darkness, Black

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.

  Daniel Handler

  Running, Car, Pairs

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• He was clearly related to Declan: same nose, same dark eyebrows, same phenomenal teeth. But there was a carefully cultivated sense of danger to this Lynch brother. This was not a rattlesnake hidden in the grass, but a deadly coral snake striped with warning colors. Everything about him was a warning: If this snake bit you, you had no one to blame but yourself.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Brother, Dark, Color

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.160, Scholastic Inc.

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• Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
  And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;
  For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
  Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take!

  Omar Khayyam

  Forgiveness, Men, Giving

  Omar Khayyam (2009). “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.111, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The President wants to talk about a terrorist named bin Laden. I don't want to talk about bin Laden. I want to talk about a terrorist called Christopher Columbus. I want to talk about a terrorist called George Washington. I want to talk about a terrorist called Rudy Giuliani. The real terrorists have always been the United Snakes of America.

  Malik Zulu Shabazz

  Real, America, Patriotism

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• I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.

  Freedy Johnston

  Oil, Trying, Music Business

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• Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?

  Toni Morrison

  Games, Lions, Ants

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• There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Hands, Law, Healthy

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 151, 2004.

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• Everybody has to play a side because if you play both sides you a snake if you not a peacemaker.

  Cormega

  Play, Sides, Peacemaker

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention.

  Julian Lennon

  People, Attention, Crowds

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

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• The kundalini energy is often compared to a snake that is coiled up. Because it is coiled up it can spring very quickly. It can jump and extend itself very far.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spring, Buddhism, Energy

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• Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

  William Carlos Williams

  Weed, Flower, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.455, New Directions Publishing

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• Every king sleeps, but not every king wakes up as king! The snakes of the intrigue crawl around during the night! The cleverest king is the least sleeping king!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Sleep, Night

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• My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.

  Steve Jobs

  Mother, Teacher, School

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.

  Robin McKinley

  Country, Dust, Land

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.11, Penguin

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• Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.

  Wesley Strick

  Church, Legs, Used

  "Fictional character: Max Cady". "Cape Fear", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• My fear in life, I don't have any kind of specifics like snakes or spiders or anything but I think if I was covered in buttermilk naked running down the street being chased by Gandalf, I'd say, or I don't know, I'm just making it up!

  Theo James

  Running, Thinking, Naked

  "‘Divergent’ Interview: Theo James Talks Personal Fears & Complex Characters". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. March 17, 2014.

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• I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought ridiculous stuff. I bought a snake bite emergency kit. Then I said to my friends, "Don't even worry about snakes anymore". My friend stepped on a worm, and I said, "Lay down!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• A snake bite emergency kit is a body bag.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Bags

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• I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Scare, Stories

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year.

  Ross Perot

  Years, Firsts, Organize

  Quoted in BusinessWeek, 6 Oct. 1986

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