Quotes About Jackals

#1. Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

Elbert Hubbard

#2. Her son upon his throne. When the lion falls the lesser beasts move in: the jackals and the

George R R Martin

#3. 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.

Aberjhani

#4. They dumped him in the orphanage as dust and dirt swirled in fierce desert winds howling like jackals. It was a day when hawks flew against the wind without making headway, hovering over him, preparing for the kill. As if he were their helpless prey. And that was how he felt. Helpless.

I.J. Sarfeh

#5. Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

Cyril Connolly

#6. He was a follower of a teacher from Galilee who taught that peace was the only hope for mankind. Without it, we were like the jackals in the desert, nothing more. Beside me,

Alice Hoffman

#7. And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.

John Perkins

#8. People are jackals, always willing to feed off someone else's kill.

Tamora Pierce

#9. When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.

Steven Bochco

#10. The work of art is a pyramid which stands in the desert, uselessly: jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it;

Julian Barnes

#11. He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.

Walter Hill

#12. At night the jackals came and ate their feet, and the next morning crows flew down and ate their eyes.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#13. Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds

M.F. Moonzajer

#14. [The] swarming, grunting masses of jackals ...

Conrad Black

#15. The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

Aldous Huxley

#16. I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

David Brooks

#17. When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

Idries Shah

#18. Dingoes, jackals, skunks, vipers and weasel are now illegal in New York City. Well great, who's going to run CBS?

David Letterman

#19. Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

Ernest Hemingway,

#20. He's here. We can smell it. (Arcadian Sentinel)
You need to get your head out of your sphincter and stop smelling your own underwear cause the only jackals here, buddy, are you. (Aimee)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#21. Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.

H.L. Mencken

#22. [He was disgusted] at the beasts who in callous cruelty had dragged down and maimed and destroyed the human dignity of this selfless man. Yet it was nothing new. It had been like this at some point in every civilization and on every continent. There were human jackals for every human disaster.

Pat Frank

#23. If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can't stand pain, but make matters worse by trying to get rid of it. Put on giraffe ears. Try to hear what they are feeling and needing.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#24. I don't see any difference between a prophet and a soldier; the only difference is prophets were jackals and survived while soldiers fought and died.

M.F. Moonzajer

#25. Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#26. I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.

Rick Riordan

#27. Idleness and luxury are the devil's jackals, and find him abundant prey.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#28. Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#29. Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#30. Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

Barbara Tuchman