Top 33 Vaillant Quotes
#1. The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.
John Vaillant
#2. 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
#3. It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.
George E. Vaillant
#4. Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.
George Vaillant
#5. Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.
George Vaillant
#6. What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?
John Vaillant
#7. To say a tiger is an "outside" animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger is inside.
John Vaillant
#8. Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey
even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.
John Vaillant
#9. The recent years of the Grant Study have shown that our lives when we are old are the sum of all of our loves.
George Vaillant
#10. Our listeners asked us:
"What is chaos?"
We're answering:
"We do not comment on economic policy.
John Vaillant
#11. The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.
George E. Vaillant
#12. If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.
George Vaillant
#13. 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
#14. By the time these words are read, the centuries-old cedar, hemlock, and balsm of the cutblock known as Leah Block 2 will be a distant memory, long since processed into siding, two-by-fours, perhaps even the paper that has been recycled into the pages of this book.
John Vaillant
#15. Their houses are the size of small airplane hangars; their carved
John Vaillant
#17. Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.
George Vaillant
#18. Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.
George Vaillant
#19. The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.
John Vaillant
#20. It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.
George Vaillant
#21. Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees ... to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929
John Vaillant
#23. Nothing exists now but the tiger, filling his field of vision like a bad accident, like the end of the world: a pair of blazing yellow lanterns over a temple door framed with ivory columns.
John Vaillant
#24. In the 1970s, after the Damansky Island clashes, a joke began circulating: 'Optimists study English; pessimists study Chinese; and realists learn to use a Kalashnikov.
John Vaillant
#25. The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.
John Vaillant
#26. Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.
George Vaillant
#27. British Columbia has been described as a banana republic, only with bigger bananas,
John Vaillant
#28. Joy is connection ... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better,
George Vaillant
#29. We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy ... Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion ... without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.
George Vaillant
#30. He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.
John Vaillant
#31. The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.
George Vaillant
#32. It is an eccentric and uniquely human approach to resources: like plowing under your farmland to make way for more lawns, or compromising your air quality in exchange for an enormous car.
John Vaillant
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