Jim Corbett Quotes

#1. It is these big-hearted sons of the soil, no matter what their cast or creed, who will one day weld the contending factions into a composite whole, and make of India a great nation.

Jim Corbett

#2. A leopard, on the other hand, even after it has killed scores of human beings, never loses its fear of man; and, as it is unwilling to face human beings in daylight, it secures its victims when they are moving about at night or by breaking into their houses at night. Owing

Jim Corbett

#3. The dividing line between the superstitions of simple uneducated people who live on high mountains, and the beliefs of sophisticated educated people who live at lesser heights, is so faint that it is difficult to determine where the one ends and the other begins.

Jim Corbett

#4. Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.

Brian McKnight

#5. It was as though the man-eater - for no other leopard would have killed the goat and laid it on the track- had said, 'Here, if you want your goat so badly, take it; and as it is now dark and you have a long way to go, we will see which of you lives to reach the village.

Jim Corbett

#6. Leopards, that is ordinary forest leopards, do not like rain and invariably seek shelter, but the man eater was not an ordinary leopard, and there was no knowing what his likes or dislikes were, or what he might or might not do.

Jim Corbett

#7. There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory

Jim Corbett

#8. This is what being in love feels like, Wesley. Gratitude. Gratitude that you exist in this fucked-up, beautiful universe.

Leah Raeder

#9. Thank God that sow's gone to the butcher.

Odilo Globocnik

#10. If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

Charles Morgan

#11. Those who have never seen a leopard under favourable conditions in his natural surroundings can have no conception of the grace of movement, and beauty of colouring, of this the most gracefuL and the most beautiful of all animales in our Indian jungles.

Jim Corbett

#12. However much I doubted the man's ability to accomplish the task he had set himself, I could not help admiring his faith and his industry.

Jim Corbett

#13. Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should not have done, or left undone anything we should have done.It could only be attributed to sheer bad luck.

Jim Corbett

#14. ... "Lived happily ever after," Natasha concluded, thinking back to that photograph. The woman who was well loved.
John's glare was withering. "Are you kidding me?" he said. "Who the hell gets to live happily ever after?

Jojo Moyes

#15. We know that a ready amnesty tends to be an invitation to more illegal entries.

Jeff Sessions

#16. No mention is made in government records of man-eaters prior to the year 1905 and it would appear that until the advent of the Champawat tiger and the Panar leopard, man-eaters were unknown in Kumaon. When

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#17. No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.

Jim Corbett

#18. All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.

Joseph Plaskett

#19. I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.

Marlon Brando

#21. There is no universal language in the jungles; each species has its own language, and though the vocabulary of some is limited, as in the case of porcupines and vultures, the language of each species is understood by all the jungle-folk.

Jim Corbett

#22. The human collective knows far more today than did the ancient bands. But at the individual level, ancient foragers were the most knowledgeable and skilful people in history.

Yuval Noah Harari

#23. The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.

Jim Corbett