Straw Dogs Quotes

#1. The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

Laozi

#3. Heaven and earth are not humanistic - they regard myriad beings as straw dogs; sages are not humanistic - they regard people as straw dogs,

Sun Tzu

#4. In life, if you never take risks, then I truly believe you will never be rewarded.

L.K. Collins

#5. Tell me, schatze, is it twue what they say about the way you people are... gifted?
...Oh, it's twue! It's twue!

Madeline Kahn

#6. Life was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it.

John N. Gray

#7. First time was instinct. I hear O'Leary go, "Jesus," and there's a skinny brown dog lapping up blood the same way he'd lap up water from a bowl. It wasn't American blood, but still, there's that dog, lapping it up. And that's the last straw, I guess, and then it's open season on dogs.

Phil Klay

#8. Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

John Elway

#9. Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.

L. Neil Smith

#10. Ellen came out of the nursery from checking on Grace and said, "I love her so much it's just ... " "Excruciating," supplied her mother. "I know. It doesn't really get any better. You just learn to live with it.

Liane Moriarty

#11. You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and dogs.

Helen Thompson Woolley

#12. I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

Edward Weston

#13. I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.

Chris LeDoux

#14. [Our physical illnesses] serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

John Calvin

#15. A vision and strategy aren't enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day.

Richard M. Kovacevich

#16. I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#17. Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life.

John N. Gray

#18. I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

Caroline Kennedy