Quotes About Herd Animals

#1. The mainstream media act just like in the classic studies of herd animals; at the exact instant more than half of the herd makes a move to bolt, they all move.

Matt Taibbi

#2. One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.

Allen Wheelis

#3. Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Loren Eiseley

#4. Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable ... I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.

Erik Naggum

#5. You should try to be nicer to the other horses. You're herd animals. Who will you run with if he goes back to tell the others of your two-faced personality? Who will you compare apple notes with? Soon you won't have any friends but me.

Cynthia Hand

#6. But for the most part, people - of the right kind - are good. For them I put on my corset of cheerfulness, a solid serviceable garment. It holds in the bulgings and oozings of emotion, and soon I find they are, temporarily, stilled.

Anna Lyndsey

#7. If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population.

Christian De Duve

#8. The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our heart. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals.

Thomas Paine

#9. Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others.

Barry Libert

#10. Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

John Gay

#11. I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

Ted Shawn

#12. An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. A flock of angels are coming to see me...or a gaggle? A herd? No, they aren't animals. A legion... That's the word.

A.J. Flowers

#14. My mom was always the support. I can always go out to her and she'll always find the positive in things.

Caroline Wozniacki

#15. All the saddle horses, and even some of the pack animals, were affected by the scent of the wild herd. Freedom still lived deep down in their hearts. That was why a broken horse, no matter how gentle, became the wildest of the wild when he got free.

Zane Grey

#16. We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#17. My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.

Corey Dillon

#18. Adam wondered if there was a true smile among this herd of wealthy animals.

Maggie Stiefvater

#19. In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

James Surowiecki

#20. Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals
for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

H.P. Lovecraft

#21. I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#22. I've had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I'd really like to give that another go. I don't know if I'd chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone.

Dennis Quaid

#23. I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

P. J. O'Rourke

#24. When attempting to turn things around for a particularly disliked or controversial client, Sitrick was fond of saying, "We need to find a lead steer!" The media, like any group of animals, gallops in a herd. It takes just one steer to start a stampede.

Ryan Holiday

#25. If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking.

Cheryl Strayed

#26. So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.

Carl Jung

#27. I'd like to meet god. Not to question it, just to have a peak at what it is. I say 'it' because we don't know what it is.

Ruud Gullit

#28. Because predators tend to eat the weakest of a species, they keep the remaining population strong. Without predators, herds become weak and disabled. In contrast, when humans hunt animals for trophies, they kill the strongest of the species, thereby weakening the herd.

Stacey O'Brien

#29. I smell panic," said Serge. "These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.

Tim Dorsey