You Cannot Reason With A Tiger Quotes

#1. I'll teach you," Tiger Lily offered with a shrug of her shoulders.
"Did your mother teach you?" he asked.
"I don't have a mother," she said. "Like you."
For some reason, Peter was glad to hear it.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#2. There are many times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

Ayelet Waldman

#3. One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.

John Darnielle

#4. Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. I used to think I had ambition ... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

Rachel Field

#6. A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.

John Locke

#7. Entomologists trap insects in their killing jars and then pin their corpses to cards, and no one utters a single squeak of protest. For that matter, let a gentleman hunt a tiger for its skin, and everyone applauds his courage. But to shoot a dragon for science? That, for some reason, is cruel.

Marie Brennan

#8. He knows that the gazelle's power lies in its strong legs. The power of the seagull
lies in the accuracy with which it can spear a fish. He has learned that the reason
the tiger does not fear the hyena is because he is aware of his own strength.

Paulo Coelho

#9. These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

Tippi Hedren

#10. It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

Jerome K. Jerome