Lion Quotes
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Even if everything its detractors say about Fox were true, the most liberal of liberal attitudes would be that one would get credit for being in the lion's den.
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
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Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.
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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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The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.
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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 wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
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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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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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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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March was doing exactly as it should; it had come in like a lamb, now it was going out like a lion.
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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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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 would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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When I see Lionel Messi play soccer, he lets the game come to him. He lets the game unveil itself to him, then like a lion he eats the whole thing.
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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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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.
