The Pack Quotes

#1. Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

Penelope Gilliatt

#2. Most people aren't overly afflicted with curiosity. It separates the creative and the tormented from the rest of the pack. -

Jonathan Kellerman

#3. Americans are very big about loving the dog first, so when you tell them you have to set rules and limitations, a lot of people believe it's going to hurt their feelings. They're actually looking for you to be the pack leader.

Cesar Millan

#4. A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy.

Nenia Campbell

#5. Any blisters on your shoulder blades would weep painfully, as the weight of the pack went back on. Then somehow your mind would shut out the pain, for a while. Until, by the end of the march, your shoulders would start to wilt and cramp up as if they were on fire.

Bear Grylls

#6. Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Soong May-ling

#7. Don't let your imagination run off with theirs. There is no proof that he did anything to our father. When farmers fear for their livestock, they take down every wolf indiscriminately - don't let the pack do that. Maybe someone like Sam did this, but not Sam.

Lish McBride

#8. The pack of all disasters has moulded together and fallen on my neck." FRANCISCO PELSAERT

Mike Dash

#9. If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

Chris Evans

#10. A long time ago, she remembered her father saying that when the cold winds blow the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
He had it all backwards.
Arya the lone wolf, still lives, but the wolves of the pack had been taken and slain and skinned.

George R R Martin

#11. This new thinking leads away from the pack, but a dog is no dog if he does not belong.

Andre Alexis

#12. A sheep in wolf's clothing should not bleat within the pack.

Dave Duncan

#13. To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#14. A week after Jacque and Fane's ceremony, Decebel had gotten in his Hummer and, without looking back, driven away from the pack mansion. And 62 days, 4 hours, and 22 minutes later he still hadn't returned. But who's counting?

Quinn Loftis

#15. All Adam needed was an answer, and 'no' would have worked just as well to set the pack back in order. I agreed because ... because he's Adam. Mine, whispered a voice in my head, but I was pretty sure it was my own voice.

Patricia Briggs

#16. There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it's not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

Bill Belichick

#17. 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

#18. As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In '05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.

Jason Aldean

#19. So much of television is incredibly predictable. You watch the first five minutes and you know where it's going to go. If you can just create an element of surprise in both the storytelling and tone of a show, you're going to be way ahead of the pack.

David Nevins

#20. I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.

Ree Drummond

#21. Entrepreneurs stand out from the rest of the pack because they are not afraid to take big risks and they aim to please no one except the people who truly matter.

Kathryn Finney

#22. For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Rudyard Kipling

#23. The Pack is gathering. There can be no culls among us.

Steven E. Wedel

#24. You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.

Jeff Gordon

#25. Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.

Anonymous

#26. From the dog's viewpoint, however, they are directly asserting dominance with that stare. When you respond by giving him what he wants, the dog interprets this as a submissive gesture on your part, and also reads this as your acceptance that the dog has a higher status in the pack than you do.

Stanley Coren

#27. I ignored her and continued down the hall. I had only four more hours to perfect the Sausalito. I was worried only about myself. By that stage, I was no longer certain of how the pack felt about anything.

Karen Russell

#28. Everyday on the bike is a different day. Just when you think your on top, you find yourself towards the back of the pack. It is probably the hardest sport I ever done it continues to be challenging and different.

Robin Farina

#29. Promise me you'll be careful, my boy." She handed him the pack she'd assembled.
"Don't worry. The Wolf has no interest in me," he said, smiling through his pain. "I'm all gristle.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

#30. I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.

Alfonsina Storni

#31. I used to wash my hands every ten minutes. I couldn't step out of the house unless I had gloves on. I wouldn't smoke a cigarette unless I opened the pack myself, and I would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it.

Joan Crawford

#32. What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

Dan Rather

#33. The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

T.D. Jakes

#34. He's not the brightest crayola in the pack.

P.C. Cast

#35. And muddy. The long sleeves keep getting caught on thorns and branches as I run through the woods. The pack of muttation tributes draws closer and closer until it overcomes me with hot breath and dripping fangs and I scream myself awake. It's too

Suzanne Collins

#36. Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

Gerald R. Ford

#37. I want to come all over you. I want to mark you as mine, so that every wolf in the pack knows who you belong to.
- Wolf Shifter Ryker Black

Kara Swynn

#38. You know the little camel on the pack of cigarettes? They just found out that's not even a camel. It's actually a horse with a big, old tumor growing out of its mouth.

Arj Barker

#39. I hated lying to my family.
I had no choice.
As a werewolf, the pack'd go apeshit if they found out I'd spent the last few months shagging a cat.

~Kyle Larsen

J.A. Belfield

#40. The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart.

Conn Iggulden

#41. The first - imitation - merely does enough to keep your competitors in check. It does not create space in the marketplace; all it does is temporarily ensure that the pack of nondifferentiated competitors keeping their doors open will include you.

Scott McKain

#42. Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Eminem

#43. This was the magic of feasting & fucking, of savoring the blood of a kill & calling the Pack to dine.

Chloe Neill

#44. You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

Ian Fleming

#45. On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.

Ilona Andrews

#46. I inherited the Pack Master title because I'm the biggest, baddest motherfucker in the United States and I'm willing to kill anyone who challenges me mercilessly to prove it." ~ Uncle Owen

Jessie Lane

#47. You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths.

Taylor Swift

#48. As soon as the engagement was announced, the Pack Clans converged and shot the idea of a quiet ceremony out of the water and then kept firing at it until it stopped convulsing and died.

Ilona Andrews

#49. There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick's car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.

Patricia Briggs

#50. Tell me you'll come back for the pack. For me." His eyes were bright with tears. "I don't want to lose you.

Andrea Cremer

#51. He's going to try to take Megan! I shouted, fury filling me and spilling out in the form of the manifestation. I raced down the hill toward the crossroad, the pack of snarling, jingling, horned hell poodles streaming behind me.
Dane and his hell-poodles

Katie MacAlister

#52. When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

Loudon Wainwright III

#53. When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.

Michael Andretti

#54. I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.

Patricia Briggs

#55. I can't give up my faith in the longpaws. I understand that we can't rely on the longpaws to help us anymore. But one of us has to remember. One of us has to carry the memories for the rest of the Pack. I'll do it.

Erin Hunter

#56. The fact that you don't hate him for this breaks my heart. And if we weren't leaving because of what they'd done to you, we'd be leaving because the pack has twisted you enough to make you think that it's okay for someone to treat you that way.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#57. For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

Theodore White

#58. The highest ranking wolf in the pack isn't the one that uses brute force. It's the one who can, and chooses not to.

Jodi Picoult

#59. I'm not worried about her coming between us," I told him truthfully. "I'm worried about her hurting you and Jesse. Hurting the pack. But that's better than letting her face whatever it is on her own.

Patricia Briggs

#60. Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council - Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey - rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.

Rudyard Kipling

#61. I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

Jodi Picoult

#62. If instead you feed the wolf and tame him and turn his pups into your guard dogs, they will protect the flocks when the pack comes ravening.

George R R Martin

#63. I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

Boris Pasternak

#64. When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

Loudon Wainwright III

#65. Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.

Zig Ziglar

#66. Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could. The

Rudyard Kipling

#67. Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.

Cesar Millan

#68. One can often trace the sources of a brand personality-here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element of the product. Of course, the personality is clearest and strongest when all the elements are consistent.

Stephen King

#69. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

George R R Martin

#70. I'd never been part of a group like that, so it was interesting, like a National Geographic special on wolves that I might watch with my dad.
And I was part of the pack.

Bill Konigsberg

#71. I think racing is a sport that either your in or your out. Its either you are with the pack or you are off the pack.

Robin Farina

#72. The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

D. Wayne Lukas

#73. The hungriest wolf leads the pack.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#74. As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

Robert Falcon Scott

#75. I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.

Steven Curtis Chapman

#76. Dog's owners don't call me. It's their neighbors or family members. We call them the whistleblowers, but it's more like the pack. It's making sure that one pack member gets in line. Before it was the owners, now it's the community.

Cesar Millan

#77. This was the magic of feasting & fucking, of savoring the blood of a kill & calling the Pack to dine.

Chloe Neill

#78. The ref blew the whistle and the pack took off. The "jostling" from earlier had turned into a "melee" Sun Tzu would have been afraid of.

Shelly Laurenston

#79. Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.

George R R Martin

#80. In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that.

Fred Lebow

#81. Big love is the kind of love that takes in more than the self. It's love for something bigger than the self. It's love of God, of the universe, of the family, of the pack, of the tribe. It inspires courage and selflessness in those who know it.

Angelo Dirks

#82. In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

Herbie Hancock

#83. Settled for a blooming redhead from Waco, Takes-us, name of Molly Bea Archer, carefully cut her out of the pack and trundled her, tipsy and willing, back to the Busted Flush.

John D. MacDonald

#84. You can always tell the success or power of a man or woman by the size of the pack of dogs nipping at their heels

Don Bendell

#85. She wished that the werewolves had picked someone - anyone - other than Levi to represent the pack at their meeting while Abel was in mourning. Someone who was slightly less of an idiot.

S.M. Reine

#86. You will never become a category of one if you run with the pack.

Seth Godin

#87. Well, isn't this just perfect," Kyle commented. "We need to go rough up a big bad wolf, and half the pack is already leaving.

Jody Morse

#88. Climb above the pack but leave the ladder in place for others to follow

Dean Cavanagh

#89. People think I built the Pack, because I'm the guy who has the welfare of all shapeshifters in mind. They're wrong. Everything I built, I did so that when I mate and have children, nobody can touch my family. ( ... ) I built all this so I can protect you.

Ilona Andrews

#90. The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#91. Often we blame the breed, but in my opinion, it's not the breed, it's the owner. The owner has to be the pack leader and provide exercise, discipline, then affection. If you do that, you'll have a sweet, loving, and balanced dog - no matter what breed!

Cesar Millan

#92. This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge.

Ilona Andrews

#93. Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.

Ezra Miller

#94. Leisure is gone,
gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

George Eliot

#95. I had to protect him. And me. So I took everything I felt for the pack. I saw the bond, and instead of closing myself off to it, I pulled. I pulled at it and I thrust it toward Chase.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#96. When will being independent and strong and not following the pack and daring to be different and being brave in my opinions, my fashion choices and my hair colour be enough?

Sarra Manning

#97. And now if they should break or you should fall, you might faint for a year or two. If that happens, your local system takes over: that's the pack on your back.

Cordwainer Smith

#98. For those who have learned what suffering is early on, you have prepared ahead of the pack so that you can take care of the pack.

Donna Lynn Hope

#99. How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

Tracy Kidder

#100. The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.

Howard Jacobson