Crocodiles Quotes

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. — Winston Churchill
I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings,… — Maya Angelou
Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest… — John Naughton
They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last. — Winston Churchill
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric… — Charles Kingsley
Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation… — Theodore Holmes Bullock
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are… — Mary Midgley
He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you. — Barack Obama
Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of… — Anna Lee
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy… — William James
Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender. — Homer
International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs, in the VIP… — Binyavanga Wainaina
If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just… — Ronald Reagan
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is… — Christiaan Barnard
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not… — J C Ryle
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach… — Adrian Rogers
Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout. — Ashanti
Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or… — David Quammen

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