Lions Quotations | Page 3

If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.

Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all.

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.

I like an otter. I like a sea lion. I like a walrus. That's my favorite version of a sea creature.

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

f you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.

I'm like a lion - I roar. If someone betrays me, I won't be a victim. I don't sulk, I get angry. I go immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain.

We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every dog is a lion at home.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

The college kids are a big part of our client base, so we cater to them with healthier foods. And this store is more upscale than the Food Lions that people in Harrisonburg are familiar with.

Barry Sanders, by far. Not only one of my favorite Lions, but one of my favorite NFL athletes. It's all about highlights for me, I'm a receiver! Sanders is like the NFL version of an And1 mix tape.

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that, like lions at the watering hole, they will always take more than their share from the pool of available resources - extra air from the room, added knowledge from our faces.

In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.

The Lions were keen to have an additional match against one of the top provincial sides and I'm sure Auckland will provide them with a challenging match-up before the third test.

The Lions tour will be the biggest thing to hit New Zealand since Lord of the Rings.

The Lions Club will sell their famous funnel cakes and they're doing hot dogs this year, too.

The lions are discovering they can make a pretty good living on the fringes of suburbia.

The Lions are a very good football team.

The Lions agreed to a 12-hour citing period and there was no opportunity to gather any further evidence.

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

Jeez, was that a lion? Please tell me it’s behind bars.” “It’s a zoo, Iggy,” Nudge said, taking his arms and leading him. “Everything’s behind bars.

I'm like the LION, i'm not the GAZELLE

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.

A lot of people like to downgrade Morocco and Africa like its all jungles and lions and sh*t. The actual truth is a lot of stuff is going on out there.

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right.

I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of a sheep

I am from the jungle where the lion eats the cobra

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.

The lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great deal of nastiness that's already happened in the bond market.

Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.

But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?

You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows.

...I am writing these poems from inside a lion...

Ryan Seacrest: Trouble, trouble trouble. So why do girls go for the bad guys, what is it Taylor Swift? Why? Taylor Swift: Because maybe we could change them! Everybody wants to like tame a lion.

It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who stands only for your conscience.

Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.

His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits.

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

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.

A lion may die of an ass's kick.

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.

I have a generally liberal audience, but they will applaud when I nail a liberal lion.

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.

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.

The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'

Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings, taking no detail or person for granted.

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats

It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.

[Footnote:] Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.

Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!

They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?

Lions make leopards tame.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.

I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion.