Quotes & Sayings About Cornered Animals

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future. — Oprah Winfrey

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor. — Ira Hayes

Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater. — Lloyd Bridges

I've only myself to blame. It would be easy for me to blame others but I have to look at myself. — Craig Bellamy

The band was formed on the reality show So You Think the British Don't Have Talent?, — Goldy Moldavsky

There's no such thing as an animal too big too kill, AND we're cornered by such animals every day. — Shane McCrae

Mountain lions are psychological animals, preying on the mind with secret eyes. They know that they still dominate, that they cannot be cornered without ripping their way out. They know that they are still the heart of firceness. Being pack animals ourselves, we humans have some alliance with other pack animals, like wolves or coyotes. When I see a free wolf, I feel as if we could sit down and talk, given that the details have been worked out. Not so with the cat. The cat speaks in symbols. — Craig Childs

'I can get mad all I want, but they don't mean it. They love me. Sometimes, some creatures, when they get cornered, they forget who loves them and think everybody's the enemy. You don't just leave them alone, cold and afraid, because their instinct takes over and it's wrong. You don't if you give a shit, you know?' — Amy Lane

In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines. — Jodi Picoult

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits. — Mason Cooley

Square meals, not adventurous ones, are what you should seek. — Bryan Q. Miller

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. — Bruce Jackson

If people stopped to consider even a quarter of what they say, this world would be paradise. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now. — Kevin Bacon

Madame Lefoux acted as midwife. In her scientific way, she was unexpectedly adept at the job. When the infant finally appeared, she held it up for Alexia to see, rather proudly, as though she'd done all the hard work herself. 'Goodness,' said an exhausted Lady Maccon, 'are babies customarily that repulsive looking? — Gail Carriger

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be. — Philip Yancey

The natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature. The pollution, the rampant industrialization, the loss of habitat-when animals were squeezed and cornered, they behave viciously, in a desperate effort to survive. — Michael Crichton