Gazelle Life Quotes

#1. Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.

Mia Couto

#2. Dusk
I feel my heart melting
in the mildness like candles:
my veins are slow oil
and not wine,
and I feel my life fleeing
hushed and gentle like the gazelle.

Gabriela Mistral

#3. Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by when said by world-famous scientists.

John Lennox

#4. There is a term for people caught on a street crossing after the light has changed: "pedestrian-traffic residue".

Mavis Gallant

#5. All right," Spook said. He reached to the ground, scooping up a pile of ash. "Let's just rub this into your clothing and on your face ... "
Breeze froze. "I'll meet you back ath the lair," he finally said.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

Italo Calvino

#7. Giving a girl the impression that girlhood is an extended bounce on Barney's knee is like prepping a young gazelle for life on the Serengeti by dipping it in cream.

Natalie Angier

#8. We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

Paul Watson

#9. There are times when your body takes control. Times when the gazelle says, 'Fuck you, lioness,' and delivers the biggest kick of its whole gazelley life.

Harry Bingham

#10. It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

Niels Bohr

#11. Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

Olafur Eliasson

#12. Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

Charles Perrault

#13. Now, if the question were to destroy a lion, a tiger, a cat, a hyena, I could understand it; but to deprive an antelope or a gazelle of life, to no other purpose than the gratification of your instincts as a sportsman, seems hardly worth the trouble.

Jules Verne