Lionlike Man Quotes & Sayings

You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone. — Robert Jordan

I heard a noise on the back patio and opened the door. The rabbit was there in a black metal cage. It was big, not some fluffy little ball of fur, but a big, ugly rabbit. It stood on its hind legs and sniffed the air.

"Yes, you smell that," I told the rabbit. "That's the smell of your enemy. Get a good whiff. We are not friends." It could probably smell the apple I still held, not me. I bit off a piece and threw it into the cage, sending it a very mixed message considering the speech I'd given. "Just keeping you on your toes."

"Who are you talking to — Kasie West

If buyer's remorse ever accomplished anything in this world," Max said, "we'd all still be living in caves. — Donald E. Westlake

You had a talk? You think talk got us out of Egypt or Entebbe? Uh-uh. Plague and Uzis. Talk gets you a good place in line for a shower that isn't a shower. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising. — Richard Dawkins

I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything. — Abbey Clancy

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence. — George Holyoake

I think it's important to cross train. Surfing is a good cross training sport for your shoulders. I don't think I know of any other football player who does it, who can go and paddle out past the sets. — Troy Polamalu

I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing. — Jason Mewes

The difference between an opportunity and a problem is the individual that first faces the situation. — Adrian Williams

The mania for collecting can easily turn simply into accumulating. All one has to do is develop one collecting interest after another, and so on. But collectors of a particular category of articles almost always lose interest once they have reached their goal. When the collection is complete, what else is there to do? ... Failure makes it possible to avoid the effort: he simply carries on as before. (pp. 25-26) — Jacques Bonnet

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing. — Timothy Geithner

If an opportunity does not knock why not build a door? — Gloria D. Gonsalves