Leonine Quotes

#1. Despite the almost aggressive touch of luxury in the fur coat, it soon became apparent that Sir Walter's large leonine head was for use as well as ornament, and he considered the matter soberly and sanely enough.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. How can a man's candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind - impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.

George Eliot

#3. I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.

Alexander The Great

#4. Be concentrated and leonine
in the hunt for what is your true nourishment.
Don't be distracted by blandishment-noises,
of any sort.

Rumi

#5. Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.

Tertullian

#6. It's more dangerous to have a friend then it is to have an enemy.

James Jean-Pierre

#7. I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

Mike Piazza

#8. Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

Spider Robinson

#9. In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.

William Monahan

#10. The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

Aristotle.

#11. That's the great thing about parenting. You end up going places you never thought you'd go.

Hugh Jackman