Lions Quotes
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
Tertullian
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The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.
William Shakespeare
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You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
Isak Dinesen
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Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.
Thomas Harris
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I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Imaginatively challenged folks, for whom crossing a state line amounted to foreign travel, could not conceive that the gray-blue-eyes inspecting them had, over the past year, similarly scrutinized Nandi warriors, Arab mullahs, Magyar landowners, French marshals, Prussian academics, and practically every monarch or minister of consequence in Europe--not to mention the maquettes in Rodin's studio, and whatever dark truths flickered in the gaze of dying lions.
Edmund Morris
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We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.
Michael Arrington
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They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?
William Shakespeare
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Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.
William Shakespeare
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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
William Blake
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Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!
Charlie Flynn
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A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
William Shakespeare
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The hind that would be mated by the lion
Must die for love.
William Shakespeare
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Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
William Shakespeare
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Until you win a series, it's difficult to place yourself in that elite group of great Lions players. It's not enough to produce one-off performances or be nearly-men.
Brian O'Driscoll
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While you make pretty speeches
I'm being cut to shreds
You feed me to the lions
A delicate balance.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.
Hilary Mantel
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In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.
Casey Affleck
