Lion Quotes
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In 2006, I hung out with The Carter Center as they monitored the Palestinian elections. Nobody thought Hamas would win. Hamas did not think Hamas could win. The lion's share of folks I spoke to who were voting for them were not actually voting for Hamas but against Fatah.
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.
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I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.
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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.
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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
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Love is like the lion’s tooth.
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Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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Every lion has a time in their life when a thorn has got to them at one point.
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The lion began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.
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An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
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Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
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The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
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One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
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The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.
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Lysander said, 'Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's.'
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An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
