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Rhinoceros Quotes By Myrtle Reed

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man. — Myrtle Reed

Rhinoceros Quotes By Pittacus Lore

And that's when the rhinoceros drops from the sky. — Pittacus Lore

Rhinoceros Quotes By Lao-Tzu

But I have heard that he who is skilful in managing the life entrusted to him for a time travels on the land without having to shun rhinoceros or tiger, and enters a host without having to avoid buff coat or sharp weapon. — Lao-Tzu

Rhinoceros Quotes By Yann Martel

Now comes the difficult part: you must provoke the animal that is afflicting you. Tiger, rhinoceros, ostrich, wild boar, brown bear- no matter the beast, you must get its goat. — Yann Martel

Rhinoceros Quotes By Anne Sexton

I am teaching ... It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros. — Anne Sexton

Rhinoceros Quotes By Maggie Stiefvater

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it. — Maggie Stiefvater

Rhinoceros Quotes By Scott Alexander

A rhinoceros charges with singleness of purpose. All energy is directed toward the attainment of one burning desire. The reason you are so dangerous is that once you set yourself charging at something, nothing can distract you. And you never charge two things at once. You concentrate on getting your first target and then you fix your concentration on your next goal. Never spread yourself thin. A magnifying glass will not start a fire until it remains in one spot continuously for a certain length of time. If it is constantly moved from spot to spot, nothing will get warmed up, much less start a fire. — Scott Alexander

Rhinoceros Quotes By Charles R. Swindoll

Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin. — Charles R. Swindoll

Rhinoceros Quotes By Gautama Buddha

There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. — Gautama Buddha

Rhinoceros Quotes By Peter S. Beagle

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful. — Peter S. Beagle

Rhinoceros Quotes By James A. Michener

The movement of animals across the bridge was by no means always in one direction, for although it is true that the more spectacular beasts - mastodon, saber-tooth, rhinoceros - came out of Asia to enrich the new world, other animals like the camel originated in America and carried their wonderful capacities into Asia. — James A. Michener

Rhinoceros Quotes By Vance Havner

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart. — Vance Havner

Rhinoceros Quotes By Emma Raveling

Let us help."
"You already did." My voice didn't betray anything. "Both of you helped plan this. You lent me this
car. Aubrey put up the funds."
He raised his brow. "Lending you this car doesn't count as helping. It was more like public service.
If you drove your car, the noise would wake up all of Haverleau."
"It's not that bad - "
"Yeah, if you want to be as obvious as a rhinoceros."
I gave a pointed look at his lime-green coat and bright maroon sweater.
Talk about burning my retinas. "Pot calling kettle."
He glanced at himself. "It's seasonal. I look Christmasy. — Emma Raveling

Rhinoceros Quotes By G.K. Chesterton

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't. — G.K. Chesterton

Rhinoceros Quotes By Martha Beck

Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life could be at its very best, that's what I call meeting your rhinoceros. — Martha Beck

Rhinoceros Quotes By R. Trall

They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience ... And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind - the elephant and the rhinoceros. — R. Trall

Rhinoceros Quotes By Kendall Ryan

Generally with women, I have the finesse and mental fortitude of a rhinoceros charging through a watering hole. — Kendall Ryan

Rhinoceros Quotes By Jane Brox

To reach the farthest chamber of Lascaux, it's likely a man had to snuff out his light, lower himself down a shaft with a rope made of twisted fibers, and then rekindle his lamp in the dark so as to draw the woolly rhinoceros, the half horse, and the raging bison there. A long spear transfixes that bison, and entrails pour from its side. Beneath its front hooves lies the one painted man in all of Lascaux: prone, spindly wounded, disguised behind a bird mask. And below him, until its discovery in 196o, lay a spoon-shaped lamp carved of red sandstone ... Hold it again as it once was held, and the animals will emerge out of darkness as you pass. Nothing stays still. Shadows nestle in the cavities; a flicker of light across pale protruding rock turns a hoof or raises a head. One shape recedes as another emerges, and everything lingers in the imagination. — Jane Brox

Rhinoceros Quotes By Abdulazeez Henry Musa

To deal with life and her many challenges, you have to have thick skin like a rhinoceros". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Rhinoceros Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut

Nobody today is nearly smart enough to make the sorts of weapons even the poorest nations had a million years ago. Yes, and they were being used all the time. During my lifetime, there wasn't a day when, somewhere on the planet, there weren't at least three wars going on. And the Law of Natural Selection was powerless to respond to such new technologies. No female of any species, unless maybe she was a rhinoceros, could expect to give birth to a baby who was fireproof, bombproof, or bulletproo — Kurt Vonnegut

Rhinoceros Quotes By Boyd Norton

A charging black rhinoceros is nothing to mess with. When it is headed straight toward you, it is the ultimate exercise in sphincter control. In my case, it was a strange bit of weather that caused one to charge me. — Boyd Norton

Rhinoceros Quotes By Richard P. Feynman

During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science. — Richard P. Feynman

Rhinoceros Quotes By Stella Gibbons

He stood at the table facing Flora and blowing heavily on his tea and staring at her. Flora did not mind. It was quite interesting: like having tea with a rhinoceros. — Stella Gibbons

Rhinoceros Quotes By Elvis Costello

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction. — Elvis Costello

Rhinoceros Quotes By Jaclyn Moriarty

When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She had promised thirty thousand words to her editor by tomorrow, and she had only written eleven. Specifically:
His rhinoceros smelled like a poppadom: sweaty, salty, strange and strong.
Her editor would cut that line. — Jaclyn Moriarty

Rhinoceros Quotes By Matt Ridley

Trying to replace the common law with a rationally designed law is, he jests, like trying to design a better rhinoceros in a laboratory. — Matt Ridley

Rhinoceros Quotes By Dave Goulson

It is the threat of extinction of large mammals such as tigers or rhinoceros that tends to capture the public's attention, but arguably it is the loss of the smaller creatures that should give us most concern. Insects are responsible for delivering numerous 'ecosystem services' such as pollination and decomposition, and there is no doubt that little life on earth (including ourselves) could survive without them. — Dave Goulson

Rhinoceros Quotes By Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists. — Yann Martel

Rhinoceros Quotes By Kinley MacGregor

Insect, pup, or rat. It certainly seems to me that you don't know what he is, so maybe you should leave him alone...
'Gracious, Lorelei, you should have kept your mouth shut! Why not just call him a smelly rhinoceros wart while you're at it?' (Lorelei) — Kinley MacGregor

Rhinoceros Quotes By Eugene Delacroix

The Natural History Museum is open to the public on Tuesdays and Fridays. Elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus; extraordinary animals! Rubens rendered them marvelously. I had a feeling of happiness as soon as I entered the place and the further I went the stronger it grew. I felt my whole being rise above commonplaces and trivialities and the petty worries of my daily life. What an immense variety of animals and species of different shapes and functions! — Eugene Delacroix

Rhinoceros Quotes By Brandon Sanderson

It's okay. I'm a rhinoceros astronaut." She was silent a moment. "Oh, sparks. You're going delusional." "No, no. I mean, I'm surprising. I'll surprise him. What's the most surprising thing you can think of? Bet it's a rhinoceros astronaut. — Brandon Sanderson

Rhinoceros Quotes By Eugene Ionesco

But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't ... you haven't got the vocation! — Eugene Ionesco

Rhinoceros Quotes By Sam Harris

Faith is rather like a rhinoceros, in fact: it won't do much in the way of real work for you, and yet at close quarters it will make spectacular claims upon your attention. — Sam Harris

Rhinoceros Quotes By Jeanette Winterson

Everyone knows a homosexual is no closer to being a woman than a rhinoceros. — Jeanette Winterson

Rhinoceros Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide! — Eleanor Roosevelt

Rhinoceros Quotes By Jane Wilson-Howarth

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows celebrates Nepali wildlife: a smooth grey boulder lifts its head to become a rhinoceros; a langur look-out hysterically grunts the alarm from the treetop as a tiger merges into the dappled scrub; and a menacing mantis makes her home in the makeshift bathroom and refuses to become a pet. — Jane Wilson-Howarth

Rhinoceros Quotes By Pixi Bunnell

Becoming a parent is like being coated in beef blood and being thrown in a cage with an angry tiger. Maybe I'm wrong, the tiger might actually have mercy on you and kill you quickly. Children have no mercy. They see that you have a weakness and they exploit it starting with pregnancy. I don't believe for a second that they don't know what they are doing in there. They do! Oh you want to go out today? BAM Bout of morning sickness that would lay low an elephant. You like that food? Let me tweek at your taste buds so it suddenly tastes like rhinoceros rectum deep fried. I think they have a little control center in your uterus to just continuously screw with you until you give up and just want them the hell out of your body. — Pixi Bunnell

Rhinoceros Quotes By Chris Lavers

If your unicorn shifts disconcertingly between a goat, a horse, a rhinoceros, a marine mammal from the North Atlantic, assorted Tibetan ungulates and a six-eyed ass whose ears will terrify, the work of this book is almost done. — Chris Lavers

Rhinoceros Quotes By Mel Gibson

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros ... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing. — Mel Gibson

Rhinoceros Quotes By Alan W. Watts

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd - uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. — Alan W. Watts

Rhinoceros Quotes By Lester B. Pearson

Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli. — Lester B. Pearson

Rhinoceros Quotes By William Shakespeare

What man I dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, the armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves shall never tremble. — William Shakespeare

Rhinoceros Quotes By Virginia Morell

Often, when an elephant has just died, other elephants will back up to touch its carcass gently with their hind feet, then cover the body with dirt and sticks, and stand guard. (Intriguingly, elephants have done the same to the bodies of people that they either find dead or have killed. One young orphaned elephant in a South African sanctuary shrieked and moaned when it discovered the buried remains of its daily companion, a rhinoceros, that poachers had killed for its horn.) Chimpanzees, gorillas, some corvids, and dolphins also spend time with their dead, but overall, most species do not.* — Virginia Morell

Rhinoceros Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide, — Eleanor Roosevelt

Rhinoceros Quotes By Roald Dahl

Thank goodness we don'y meet many people like [Miss Trunchbull] in this world, although they do exist and all of us are likely to come across at least one of them in a lifetime. If you ever do, you should behave as you would if you met an enraged rhinoceros out in the bush
climb up the nearest tree and stay there until it has gone away. — Roald Dahl

Rhinoceros Quotes By Brandon Sanderson

It's okay. I'm a rhinoceros astronaut. — Brandon Sanderson

Rhinoceros Quotes By Nancy Farmer

I am she who lifts the mountains
When she goes to hunt,
Who wears mamba for a headband
And a lion for a belt.
Beware!
I swallow elephants whole
And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns,
I drink up rivers to get at the hippos.
Let them hear my words!
Nhamo is coming
And her hunger is great.
I am she who tosses trees
Instead of spears.
The ostrich is my pillow
And the elephant is my footstool!
I am Nhamo
Who makes the river my highway
And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds! — Nancy Farmer

Rhinoceros Quotes By Charles Dickens

Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time-of-day, express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter; between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects. Without venturing for Scrooge quite as hardily as this, I don't mind calling on you to believe that he was ready for a good broad field of strange appearances, and that nothing between a baby and rhinoceros would have astonished him very much. Now, — Charles Dickens

Rhinoceros Quotes By Janet Jackson

People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you. — Janet Jackson

Rhinoceros Quotes By Silas Sparkhammer

For me, religion is like a rhinoceros: I don't have one, and I'd really prefer not to be trampled by yours. — Silas Sparkhammer

Rhinoceros Quotes By David Attenborough

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. — David Attenborough

Rhinoceros Quotes By Nelson Mandela

Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale) — Nelson Mandela

Rhinoceros Quotes By P. J. O'Rourke

Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time. — P. J. O'Rourke

Rhinoceros Quotes By Wade Davis

Marsh had travelled on foot to the source of the Nile and once stood down a charging rhinoceros by intrepidly opening a pink umbrella in its face. — Wade Davis

Rhinoceros Quotes By Jeanette Winterson

A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros. — Jeanette Winterson

Rhinoceros Quotes By G.K. Chesterton

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever. — G.K. Chesterton

Rhinoceros Quotes By Mark Leibovich

a mantra she attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt: women in politics, she said, "need to develop skin as tough as a rhinoceros hide. — Mark Leibovich

Rhinoceros Quotes By Winston Churchill

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill

Rhinoceros Quotes By Swami Vivekananda

Even as the lion, not trembling at noises; even as the wind, not caught in a net; even as the lotus-leaf, untouched by the water - so do thou wander alone like the rhinoceros! — Swami Vivekananda

Rhinoceros Quotes By Christopher Gerard

Bad is that often wildlife trafficking is described as a "victimless" crime. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many of the trafficked items come from murdered animals; Rhinoceros Horn, Ivory and Tiger skins; and hundreds of thousands of birds and animals die in transit in the most horrible circumstances imaginable. Just because they cannot communicate with us does not mean they are not victims. They feel, fear and die, just like humans. — Christopher Gerard

Rhinoceros Quotes By Hillary Rodham Clinton

I'm often asked how I take the criticism directed my way. I have three answers: First, if you choose to be in public life, remember Eleanor Roosevelt's advice and grow skin as thick as a rhinoceros. Second, learn to take criticism seriously but not personally. Your critics can actually teach you lessons your friends can't or won't. I try to sort out the motivation for criticism, whether partisan, ideological, commercial, or sexist, analyze it to see what I might learn from it, and discard the rest. Third, there is a persistent double standard applied to women in politics - regarding clothes, body types, and of course hairstyles - that you can't let derail you. Smile and keep going. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Rhinoceros Quotes By Hillary Clinton

There are many ways to be influential. You can work for politicians or in government and make a difference. And for young women who are interested in running for office, you just have to decide you're going to follow Eleanor Roosevelt's maxim about growing skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros, and you have to be incredibly well-prepared - better prepared [than a man], actually - and you have to figure out how you're going to present yourself, and you have to have a support group around you, because it can be really a brutal experience. — Hillary Clinton

Rhinoceros Quotes By Orson Scott Card

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief.
Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music?
How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message? — Orson Scott Card

Rhinoceros Quotes By Eugene Ionesco

Rhinoceros The Leader The Future is in Eggs or It Takes all Sorts to Make a World — Eugene Ionesco

Rhinoceros Quotes By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

No matter what is doing the creating, I have to say that the giraffe and the rhinoceros are ridiculous. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Rhinoceros Quotes By Stuart Briscoe

Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinocerosStuart Briscoe

Rhinoceros Quotes By John Irving

I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds. — John Irving

Rhinoceros Quotes By Elizabeth Camden

I can't go through you walking out on me again," he said. "I've got skin tougher than a rhinoceros hide, but I've always been a big weakling when it comes to you. If you want back into my life, it has to be for good this time." "For better or for worse, for richer or poorer . . . is that what you mean?" "Till death do us part. Yeah, that's what I'm getting at." Her face was beautiful and shining and confident. "That's what I want too. — Elizabeth Camden

Rhinoceros Quotes By E. M. Forster

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around the camp-fire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or wooly-rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. What would happen next? The novelist droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next, they either fell asleep or killed him. — E. M. Forster

Rhinoceros Quotes By Patrick Ness

Forty-seven generations before, the King of the Southerners had stolen a rhinoceros out of the Northern King's private zoo. ( - That's it? - Wars have started for less. - But that's stupid. - Precisely.) — Patrick Ness

Rhinoceros Quotes By Eugene Ionesco

What's chivalrous about saying you've seen a rhinoceros? — Eugene Ionesco

Rhinoceros Quotes By Ibrahim Ibrahim

Since the Roman Judeo-Christian heritage is pure Aryan in its origins, its adherents had no clue how to unlock the language contained in the Semitic book (i.e., Bible) that fell into their possession. Whether in Greek or in Latin, the word got translated into 'Unicorn', 'horn' or 'Rhinoceros'in total disregard to the existence of that very same animal which has that name, the Arabian Oryx. — Ibrahim Ibrahim