Tigers Quotes - Page 13

• Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don’t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Depression, Real, Angel

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.125, Vintage

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• Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Climbing, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2001). “Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.

  Al Kaline

  Sports, Team, Player

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• Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.

  Jet Li

  Art, Dragons, Different

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• Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Race, Clothes

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1948). “Mark Twain at your fingertips”

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• If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes.

  Hugh Lofting

  Zoos, Eye, Never Settle

  Hugh Lofting (1922). “The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle”, p.62, Frederick A. Stokes

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• When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.

  Norm MacDonald

  Kids, Golf, Men

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• So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!

  Bill Watterson

  Long, Checks, Traps

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1987.

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• Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nature, Philosophy, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from May 27, 2016

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• There is a Tony the Tiger inside of all of us just waiting to be unleashed.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Waiting

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• Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.

  Dan Jenkins

  Two, Injury, Bad Marriage

  "His Ownself". www.golfdigest.com. December 12, 2011.

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• Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never backed down from a fight. Don't you know anything? When she's in heat, she avoids everything male. Now run!

  Gena Showalter

  Running, Powerful, Fighting

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Animal Instincts”, p.124, Harlequin

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• Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.

  Amy Tan

  Eye, Night, Fire

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.246, Penguin

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• The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Heart, Apollo

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1097, Oxford University Press

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• People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.565, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Eye, Animal

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• Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

  Harry S. Truman

  Athlete, Men, President

  Harry S. Truman (1987). “Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of trial and hope”, Da Capo Pr

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• Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.

  Tug McGraw

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.

  Barry Williams

  Dog, Flower, Moving

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• Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, and through them presses a wild motley throng, men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes, featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho, Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav. Flying the Old World's poverty and scorn, these bringing with them unknown gods and rites, Ttose, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws in street and alley. What strange tongues are loud accents of menace alien to our air, voices that once the Tower of Babel knew! O Liberty, white Goddess! Is it well to leave the gates unguarded?

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Passion, Men, Voice

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich, “Unguarded Gates”

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• There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something to ponder as you watch the famous cantina scene in Star Wars. ... Does this make sense, given the overwhelmingly likely situation that galactic civilizations differ in their level of evolutionary development by thousands or millions of years? Would you share drinks with a trilobite, an ourang-outang, or a saber-toothed tiger? Or would you just arrange to have a few specimens stuffed and carted off to the local museum?

  Seth Shostak

  Stars, War, Science

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• The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spring, Self, Bird

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9093, Delphi Classics

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• God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

  Victor Hugo

  Cat, Men, Giving

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• I also play a little bit of Tiger Woods once in awhile. Get on the golf course there, and pretend that I'm beating him.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Golf, Play

  Interview with Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 17, 2002.

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