Quotes About Hyenas

#1. HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that - Author: Ambrose Bierce

#2. Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes - Author: Dan Brown

#3. Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us. - Author: Marty Rubin

#4. The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn. - Author: Hunter S. Thompson

#5. We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death. - Author: Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas - Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#7. A fly is as untamable as a hyena. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City! - Author: Che Guevara

#9. Proves to be a devastating hunter. Hyenas attack - Author: Yann Martel

#10. If you refuse to entertain a baby cousin, the baby cousin may get bored and entertain itself by wandering off and falling down a well. If you refuse to entertain a pack of hyenas, they may become restless and entertain themselves by devouring you. - Author: Lemony Snicket

#11. No magnetic wombats, no flying hyenas, no catfish masquerading as samurai, and, MOST CERTAINLY, no Duku jam! - Author: Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#12. Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear. - Author: Hunter S. Thompson

#13. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her. - Author: Dan Brown

#14. Plundering and stealing, cheating and lying, laboring, fighting and loving; taking all we could and returning little, we went our careless and irresponsible ways, with laughter in our hearts and sneers on our lips - as anti-social as hyenas who howled at the changes in the weather. - Author: Jim Tully

#15. I am working on a new book about a boa constrictor and a litter of hyenas. The boa constrictor swallows the babies one by one, and the mother hyena dies laughing. - Author: E.B. White

#16. If you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody. Of course, Raphael might like that ... - Author: Ilona Andrews

#17. No matter what hyenas sound like, they are not actually laughing. - Author: Bob Newhart

#18. Vultures devour the fallen. Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark. - Author: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#19. In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers' broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. - Author: Aberjhani

#20. But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive. - Author: Kristan Higgins

#21. Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener. - Author: Ian Dury

#22. Dogmatists are strange hyenas. They feed on the carrion of those thoughts they killed themselves. - Author: Gabriel Laub

#23. A wolf will growl to warn you that it's angry and a bull will paw the ground before charging. Rattlesnakes rattle, cats moan and hiss, and hyenas grunt and cackle. But a man will smile right in your face as he drives a knife into your heart. - Author: Rachel Vincent

#24. Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas? - Author: Rachel Caine

#25. Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena. - Author: H. Jay Dinshah

#26. Dozens of people who'd been boo-hooing their eyeballs out an hour earlier were laughing like overcaffeinated hyenas, stuffing their face with a whole week's worth of SQ-rationed food. Dak wondered whether funerals for old people always ended up being such festive affairs. - Author: James Dashner

#27. When cops are on the job they love lawyers like lions love hyenas, only minus the mutual respect. - Author: Reed Farrel Coleman

#28. And the truth was that most of Nash's friends weren't that bad. Their girlfriends were another story.
Speaking of bloodthirsty hyenas ... - Author: Rachel Vincent

#29. A prickle of porcupines, a cackle of hyenas, a pounce of cats, a slither of snakes. But it's a nest of vipers, a quiver of cobras, and a rhumba of rattlesnakes. They also have a parliament of owls and a congress of baboons, which I find insulting to baboons myself. - Author: Abigail Roux

#30. This move is called Qworegoys,
and the women of my grandmother's family taught it to their daughters just as they taught them to make thorn-bush fences to protect the hut from hyenas. - Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#31. They had me taking the fall for the raid, Mr. Crawford. For Evelda Drumgo's death, all of it. They were like hyenas and then suddenly it stopped and they slunk away. Something drove them off." "Maybe you have an angel, Starling." "Maybe I do. What did it cost you, Mr. Crawford? - Author: Thomas Harris

#32. I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet. - Author: Tom Hollander

#33. Did you know that in The Lion King, the hyenas - the bad guys - all speak in either black or Latino slang? And that the little cubs are told not to go where the hyenas live?" He looks at me, amused. "Do you realize that Scar, the villain, is darker than Mufasa? - Author: Jodi Picoult

#34. A woman settles down when she meets a gentleman among escaping chickens, funny baboons, and tricky hyenas .
I'm yet to meet a homosapien. - Author: Himmilicious

#35. An insecure man would rather laugh with the hyenas than chance failing a run with the lions. I - Author: Kandi Steiner

#36. May you tear each other to bits, you damned hyenas, and the quicker the better. Let it be destroyed. Let it happen. Let it end, this cold insanity. - Author: Jean Rhys

#37. In my book, the media are a necessary evil: they live off the animal inside us, they bait the front pages with second-hand blood for the hyenas to snuffle up, but they come in useful enough that you want to stay on their good side. - Author: Tana French

#38. Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. - Author: Jonathan Franzen