A Sleeping Lion Quotes

#1. It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

Philip Sidney

#2. A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Orison Swett Marden

#3. But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

Lawrence Hill

#4. Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.

Alfred Tennyson

#5. To let one into your mind was to give him or her all your secrets.

John Patrick Kennedy

#6. I am not interested in your fine calibrations of empathy or your great mission to protect the river of history. I just to live my own life, and I want to spend it having my own private fucked-up little emotions.

Bee Ridgway

#7. Thank you for the sun you brought this morning
even though the sky was full of clouds.

Rod McKuen

#8. Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

Samuel Richardson

#9. you told me I could beat him. You promised.

J.R. Ward

#10. I have a self to recover, a queen. Is she dead, is she sleeping? Where has she been, with her lion-red body, her wings of glass?

Sylvia Plath

#11. Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

John Scalzi

#12. We're going to rush the hijackers.

Jeremy Glick

#13. Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

Richard Dawkins

#14. One was Donald Trump said he didn't think Megyn Kelly had been fair to him. But he also talked about Fox's response to this. And multiple sources have said that this was authored by Roger Ailes himself.

Ryan Grim

#15. We should've been different breeds. There can only be one lion in a small cage. It's not important if the other lion is sleeping or crouching in the corner. The only important thing is that ... it's a lion.

Seyoung Kim

#16. I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.
[Writer's Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer's Digest, February 1976)]

Ray Bradbury

#17. I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither ... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

Toni Morrison

#18. I don't snore."
He nodded with a wide grin. "It's a quiet peaceful kind of snoring. Like a small cuddly Tasmanian devil. Kind of cute when sleeping, all claws and teeth when awake."
"You snore worse. At least I don't turn into a lion in my sleep.

Ilona Andrews

#19. It is only through effort that works are accomplished, not through just desires. The prey won't enter into the sleeping lion's mouth of their own accord.

Anonymous

#20. Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Friedrich Schiller

#21. When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!

Edgar Guest

#22. What wonderful minds we have, even though they don't seem to get us anywhere, or make us happy.

Tim Parks