Quotes & Sayings About Tigers And Humans

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport. — Jerry West

The reason I ask," Malcolm said, "is that I'm told large predators such as lions and tigers are not born man-eaters. Isn't that true? These animals must learn somewhere along the way that human beings are easy to kill. Only afterward do they become man-killers." "Yes, I believe that's true," Grant said. "Well, these dinosaurs must be even more reluctant than lions and tigers. After all, they come from a time before human beings - or even large mammals - existed at all. God knows what they think when they see us. So I wonder: have they learned, somewhere along the line, that humans are easy to kill? — Michael Crichton

It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body. — W. Somerset Maugham

If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.' — Danny Aiello

And this is precisely where the tension lies: Panthera tigris and Homo sapiens are actually very much alike, and we are drawn to many of the same things, if for slightly different reasons. Both of us demand large territories; both of us have prodigious appetites for meat; both of us require control over our living space and are prepared to defend it, and both of us have an enormous sense of entitlement to the resources around us. If a tiger can poach on another's territory, it probably will, and so, of course, will we. A key difference, however, is that tigers only take what they need. — John Vaillant

That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension. — Jack Coleman

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth. — Orson Scott Card

Target groups you care about that other people mostly don't, and take advantage of strategies other people are biased against using. — Peter Singer

Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it. — Malcolm Forbes

Among the many certainties whose lack he complained of, one alone is present, and it is that all things appear to us as they appear to us, and it is impossible for them to appear otherwise. — Umberto Eco

Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies. — William A. Adams

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits. — Yann Martel

Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans. — James Lee

The tiger is a bellwether
one of thousands of similarly vulnerable species, which are, at once, casualties of our success and symbols of our failure. The current moment is proof of our struggle to evolve (perhaps "mature" is a better word) beyond outmoded fears and attitudes, to face the fact that nature is neither our enemy nor our slave. — John Vaillant

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings? — Harry Mulisch

I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age. — John Updike

He wielded verbal italics as if they were capable of actual bodily harm. — Gail Carriger

Most money is invisible, little more than numbers on a computer screen? — Niall Ferguson

He had taken the precaution of closing the inside shutters of the only window, and his staff, though it leaned lightly on the door, was capable of keeping out anyone who did not want to smash his way in with an ax. — John Bellairs

In Washington ... the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality — Henry Kissinger

Golf is not easy. — Yani Tseng

The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi," the "movies," "deadly" (meaning dull), "feeling fit," "feeling blue," "grafter," a "fake," "grouch," "hunch" and "right o!" are typical of words that it would make our spoken language stilted to exclude. — Emily Post