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We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing. — Kanye West

Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion. — George Herbert

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

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. — Thomas More

Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil! — Saint John Chrysostom

Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions. — Hal Sparks

The Lord will give His righteous servants opportunities to be bold as lions when they speak in His name and as witnesses in His priesthood. — Henry B. Eyring

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside. — D.H. Lawrence

If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice. — Swami Vivekananda

And I'm wondering where the lions are. — Bruce Cockburn

The thief-catcher looked as if he would rather clean the cages with his bare hands. The lions' cages, with the lions inside. — Robert Jordan

Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones — Susan Cain

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak. — K'naan

So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best! — Luke Watson

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land. — Leonard Ravenhill

He'd taken the boys to the Hallenstadion many times to see the ZSC Lions play. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions. — Carlson Gracie

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions! — Charlie Flynn

I would rather have an army of deer commanded by a lion than an army of lions commanded by a deer!" Here — Steven Pressfield

Lions care not for the opinions of sheep. — George R R Martin

Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time. — Moondog

-the phrase "lion's share" here means "the biggest part" and has nothing to do with lions or sharing- — Lemony Snicket

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you. — Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Course, mountains serve as homes to mountain goats and mountain lions, who enjoy attacking helpless picnickers and eating sandwiches or children. So — Lemony Snicket

No, Your Grace. At the end a dragon hatches from an egg and devours all of the lions. — George R R Martin

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him. — George Herbert

Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter'd in one day, and I the elder and more terrible. — William Shakespeare

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions. — Sid Waddell

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion. — Philip Sidney

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. — Suzy Kassem

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. — William Blake

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

I remember science class
if chemistry could silence the lions laugh I'd be fine — Aesop Rock

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

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus? — Akilnathan Logeswaran

Lions and tigers and Funkyoid, oh my! — L. Frank Baum

My enemies are lions behind my back but become like quiet sheep when in my presence. — Kambiz Mostofizadeh

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

What caused the gods to fall upon my family like starved lions in a Roman arena? — Vicky Alvear Shecter

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's. — Plutarch

The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty. — Dan Gilroy

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

I'm gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion — Bob Marley

Come out, O lions, and shake off the ancient mysticism and prejudices. — Abhijit Naskar

There are some laws of nature you just know. You don't go poking lions with sticks. — Talia Vance

I'm like the LION, i'm not the GAZELLE — Eric Thomas

Oh, no, I love going into a pen of lions wearing a sign that says Edible Lamb.
Manfred — Charlaine Harris

Grass is food for elephants, but a cushion for lions. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track? — Erma Bombeck

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

Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music. — Swami Vivekananda

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all. — Abbie Hoffman

[the Devil] ... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it ... — Jonathan Edwards

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

In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions. — Kendall Jenner

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists. — John Henry Newman

Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat. — Anton Szandor LaVey

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

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

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success. — Winston Churchill

My Faith is in the Younger Generation, the Modern Generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like Lions. — Swami Vivekananda

Most of my life is in the past.
There goes some more of it.

I taught my sheep how to fight lions
so I would have more time — Chad Sweeney

If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours. — Steven J. Lawson

I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion. — William Shakespeare

When you enter the Lions Den, it's best not to go empty-handed or you'll probably leave that way — Josh Stern

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

Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. — Chinua Achebe

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar. — Winston Churchill

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. — Georgette Heyer

It's something inside his heart that's bigger than anything. He's got the heart of a lion about to grab something. — Darryl Strawberry

If a lion is not accepted in its own den, it will find no refuge in the rest of the jungle. — Wes Fesler

My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons. — Miguel Torres

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier. — Robert A. Heinlein

If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle. — Jim Stengel

As if Riley and Amelia were lions, and we were a menage a trois of lively, prancing deer. — Jaclyn Moriarty

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.
[Lat., Noli
Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.] — Juvenal

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

I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best. — Barry Sanders

One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Lions make leopards tame. — William Shakespeare

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel. — Ed Markey

Occasionally, young men, too, were thus violated. They fought like cornered lions. It always took three or four crewmen to subdue one of our boys. — Daniel Black

We are all, generally, symmetrical: ants, elephants, lions, fish, flowers, leaves. But she was a tree. No one expects a tree to be symmetrical at all. — Aimee Bender

There are no compacts between Lions and Men: and Wolves and lambs have no concord.- Homer — Rick Royster

Cats are small lions. Lions are big cats. — Mitsuaki Iwago

Cautious as a camera-man engaged in shooting a family of fourteen lions — Stella Gibbons

Lions and tigers and pissed-off girls, oh my. — Katie Bayerl

Hacks are killing our national literary culture. America treats best-sellers like literary lions and literary lions worse than stray dogs. — David B. Lentz

The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds. — Jorge Luis Borges

You can't pussyfoot around. When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat. — Ice Cube

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

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Lusts within are worse than lions without. — Thomas Watson

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security. — Norman Vincent Peale

Can you imagine saying 'Hi' to Sam Jackson and he goes and gives you a hug? It's like being hugged by a lion. — Demian Bichir

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. — William Shakespeare

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man. — George Fordyce