Top 100 Sayings About A Tiger
#1. Tyler commanded attention because he was like a tiger. Mesmerizing and possessing something that suggested it was wise not to turn your back on him, any more than it would be a wise move to run.
Joey W. Hill
#2. Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.
Madonna
#3. I have friends who come to the Australia Zoo, and it's just, instead of playing video games, we get to hug and kiss a giraffe or walk a tiger.
Bindi Irwin
#4. How are you?"
Rosa shrugged her shoulders. "My sister turned into a giant snake last night. And your cousin Tano - "
"Second cousin."
"He was there too. He was a tiger. I recognized him from his eyes. Then I fainted." She looked at him. "How does that sound?
Kai Meyer
#5. She leaves him alone with the arm. His arm. An arm that bears the unmistakable tattoo of a tiger shark.
Neal Shusterman
#6. One scrawny straggler, inching its way toward me like a tiger focused on prey. I must have looked incredibly savory, for it ignored the beaming lights blinding its searing red eyes and headed right toward me. For a half-starved beast, it was incredibly fast, its body looking bony and malnourished.
Alexia Purdy
#7. And then he came, and pulled her petals off one by one, forcing her to surround herself with thorns to survive. But he missed one petal. And she guards it with a tiger's ferocity.
Sara Wolf
#8. A tiger doesn't proclaim its tigerness; it jumps on its prey
Wole Soyinka
#9. There are few things less comforting than a tiger who's been up too late.
Bill Watterson
#10. Be cautious of bears at all times, even when being mauled by a tiger.
Craig Benzine
#11. silent those sweet lips, Once breathing eloquence That might have soothed a tiger's rage Or thawed the cold heart of a conqueror.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#12. Only two percent of the world's population have green eyes."
Kell said it so Gethin would turn and look at him full on. He did. Moss green. Lagoon green. A tiger's eyes. He wished he had the perfect words to describe the colour. Exotic. Exciting. Sexy.
Barbara Elsborg
#13. A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.
Elinor Glyn
#14. We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.
Bruno Latour
#15. This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.
James Bovard
#16. Why was I led astray by a tiger brightness? Why did a false sun lure me so far from home? ... my eyes had looked at something forbidden and seen what they should never have seen, and now sight itself had gone out of them ... never again would I see the blinding glare of enemy eyes.
Anna Kavan
#17. But I don't ask him anything, because he's driving with that weird fake-happy look on his face, as if he's about to chop me up into little pieces and feed me to a tiger.
A.S. King
#18. A tiger, however fearsome, could be hunted into a corner. It fought alone, so it died alone. But to hunt a wolf was to constantly look over your shoulder, wondering if others were behind you in the dark. "Lost?
Nicholas Eames
#19. Used to be, we were afraid of being eaten by tigers. That was a legit fear. You get eaten by a tiger just one time, and things change dramatically for you.
Johnny B. Truant
#20. It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken
Edgerrin James
#21. An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.
Laini Taylor
#22. Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be expected to worry a tiger - even if a tiger can be said to worry about anything at all - and certainly cannot be expected to worry its genes.
Richard Dawkins
#23. Within the first few months I discovered that being President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed.
Harry Truman
#24. When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.
Charles Dickens
#25. Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!
Harry S. Truman
#26. And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.
James Baldwin
#27. Do I want Social Security to be there for my kids and my grandkids? Absolutely. Will I fight like a tiger to make sure that we protect Social Security? I absolutely will.
Claire McCaskill
#28. One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.
Ernest Bramah
#29. A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#30. Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
Will Cuppy
#31. Now, if the question were to destroy a lion, a tiger, a cat, a hyena, I could understand it; but to deprive an antelope or a gazelle of life, to no other purpose than the gratification of your instincts as a sportsman, seems hardly worth the trouble.
Jules Verne
#32. Liu pulled her behind him; a spooky beast ran towards them. It was enormous and had the body of a tiger and nine heads with human like faces; its body covered by a green and blue hair. "Kaiming.
Cyci Cade
#33. I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there's no concrete path for you to take. It's always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don't know.
Joe Carnahan
#34. I've read a tiger's not dangerous,
They say the tiger won't attack
But one thing's not clear to me.
Has he read this, too? Does he know?
John Vaillant
#35. You stand in a dark room and grow a tree in your chest.
The color pink is your national anthem.
You have fled the burning city, but your pocket smolders.
He bats his eyelids and dust flies.
You are a well trying to quench its own thirst,
a tiger licking its bloody paw.
Karen Finneyfrock
#36. A man with a gun may hunt a tiger during the day with some expectation of success. Turn out his light, put the man in the jungle at night, surround him with the unknown and all his primitive fears return. Advantage to the tiger.
Alan Dean Foster
#38. Sometimes when we say things, is like putting the head inside of a tiger's mouth and wating for it not to be closed.
Kimberly Loskov
#39. If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.
Chin-Ning Chu
#41. An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Confucius
#42. I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.
Michael Flatley
#43. But I'll always love you, and I'll always miss you and I'll never forget that It's okay to put dragons in the jungle and tears on a tiger
Sharon M. Draper
#45. When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.
John Cleese
#46. Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#47. How dare you presume to be devoted to me, peasant? You're like a tick devoted to a tiger!
Joe Abercrombie
#48. In this world there is one thing that is
more dangerous and scary than a tiger ...
and that is poverty and hunger.
Raj Kapoor
#49. A Guy with a Tiger Tattoo meets
A Girl with a Dragon Tattoo
The Guy was scared of the dragon,
Tiger was shy of the Girl.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#50. Drink from me, Victor. You will need your strength for tomorrow, if not tonight." My voice, husky and low, sounds more like a purr from a tiger than words.
~ Double Magick in the Falls book 1 in The Candi Reynolds series by April Hollingworth
April Hollingworth
#51. We may now understand better, too, why my father was so fond of the story of the butler who failed to panic on discovering a tiger under the dining table; it was because he knew instinctively that somewhere in this story lay the kernel of what true 'dignity' is.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#52. There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
#54. To say a tiger is an "outside" animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger is inside.
John Vaillant
#55. It takes pride and a tiger's drive to build up the confidence, the ego, the power to defeat an opponent in the ring. It
Muhammad Ali
#56. An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Konrad Adenauer
#57. There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from a ride
With the Lady inside
And the smile on the face of the tiger.
Holly Black
#58. You're poking a tiger."
I shrug. "He poked me first."
Callum shakes his head. "And I thought raising five boys was an adventure. I haven't seen anything yet, have I?"
- Callum Royal
Erin Watt
#59. There are lots of animals in the house.
There's an elephant in the hall,
a seal in the bathtub,
a crane in the laundry,
a tiger on the stairs,
and a polar bear by the fridge.
Does this have anything to do with you?
John Burningham
#60. Politicians are like little cats: They are never serious; they always mess up the things; they are fainthearted and spoilt. And when they look at the mirror, they see a tiger there, till the hammer of reality break that mirror very harshly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
Harry S. Truman
#62. His eyes were dark, dangerous, and not at all cold. He burned with an internal inferno she wanted to touch. She stared into the gaze of a tiger and knew, even as she watched the cat retreat into the camouflage of a gentleman: The Duke of Wakefield was the Ghost of St. Giles.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#63. In the end, he relented as her look of determination reminded him a bit of an angry cat trying to be a tiger.
KaraLynne Mackrory
#64. There's nothing new about European anti-Americanism. To go to a dinner party of intellectuals in Paris in 1960 was like walking into a tiger's den with a piece of raw meat in your hands.
Charles McCarry
#65. I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I just have two cats. They're both pound kitties. One of them, Dick, is an evil, foot-biting cat. When I write a tiger morph, I'm always imagining Dick.
K.A. Applegate
#66. You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#68. I don't want you to see only a tiger when you look at me. I want you to see me. The man.
Colleen Houck
#69. There is no solitude greater than the samurai's, unless perhaps it be that of a tiger in the jungle.
Jean-Pierre Melville
#70. A tiger of light from the transoms prowled the clean pine floor.
Lauren Groff
#71. Anger is a tiger that can eat you alive if you are not careful.
Debasish Mridha
#72. Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood
Rocky Marciano
#73. If you want to live longer and to be strong, intelligent, loving, and kind--then don't follow a tiger. Follow an elephant.
Debasish Mridha
#74. In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
Mao Zedong
#75. What an almighty balls-up. Who snorts a wasp? No sane person snorts a live wasp. It's like putting your hand up a tiger's arse. - Egg
Jamie Scallion
#76. Jealousy is a tiger that tears not only its prey, but also its own raging heart.
Unknown
#77. If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.
Peter Benchley
#78. God made the cat to give man the pleasure of stroking a tiger.
Joseph Mery
#79. That dichotomy, in which the male half of a partnership wants a kitten in the kitchen and a tiger in the bedroom, is incredibly emotionally draining and confusing for women, whether they're married or not.
Jenny Block
#80. And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I am dreaming. Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; and now that I have unlimited power, I am going to cause a tiger. - Dreamtigers
Jorge Luis Borges
#81. Thereafter, he ennobled shame. He bore it in my presence like a burden, like a tiger clinging to his shoulders, the threat of which imparted to his shoulders a most insolent submissiveness.
Jean Genet
#82. He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#83. Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.
Ayelet Waldman
#84. Markov died while trying to fit a small, slippery shotgun shell into a narrow gun barrel, in the dark, at thirty below zero - with a tiger bearing down on him from ten yards away.
John Vaillant
#85. Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
Maureen Dowd
#86. Fraser stood quite still for a moment, breathing slowly and regarding Woodbine as a tiger might regard a hedgehog: yes, he could eat it, but would the inconvenience of swallowing be worth it?
Diana Gabaldon
#87. You can't be passionate when you feel like it. You have to be passionate about your job, product or cause all the time. There's no off switch on a tiger.
Harvey MacKay
#88. If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed.
Mencius
#89. He almost caused a riot among the ladies; he filled all the empty space, as if someone had let a tiger loose in this world of female longing. Even
Isabel Allende
#90. In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us, So we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out And stood in the light, licking its tail.
Czeslaw Milosz
#92. He who takes a tiger by the tail dare not let go." A
Stephen King
#93. She was a hurt animal- a tiger willing to destroy the whole jungle to get a thorn out of its paw.
And he knew she would destroy him, too, if he got in her way.
Kit Alloway
#94. There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances.
'Did he bite you?' said Father.
'No,' said Frances.
'Did he scratch you?' said Mother.
'No,' said Frances.
'Then he is a friendly tiger,' said Father. 'He will not hurt you. Go back to sleep.
Russell Hoban
#95. Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
Pearl S. Buck
#97. I wanted to follow the rain on its meanderings about our land to rejoin the sea, to break out of the frustration of a lifetime doing lengths, of endlessly turning back on myself like a tiger pacing its cage
Roger Deakin
#98. All thinking things fear. Sentience, perhaps, is facing that fear and conquering it rather than succumbing. A tiger will drown in a tar pit, but a man who can clear his thoughts may survive.
C.E. Murphy
#99. Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.
Johnny Carson
#100. A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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