Herd Quotes

203 Herd quotes by 172 unique authors

Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful… — Walter Scott
Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a… — Linda Ellerbee
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. — Loren Eiseley
Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to… — Lindsey Graham
With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break… — Og Mandino
If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by… — Robert Morley
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has… — Aaron Hill
If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not… — Edward Bernays
Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters. — Larry McMurtry
It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood… — John Grant
We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways. — Paul Rusesabagina
Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle of the group… — Blanche Barton
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd… — John Wyndham
A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy… — Ray Comfort
Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together. — Glenn Beck
They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained… — Michael Davitt
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle — Aleister Crowley
Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men. — Mark Twain
I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in… — Bertrand Russell
Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats. — Mark R. Woodward
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that… — Walter Lippmann
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a… — Cesar Aira
Trust and respect are two-way streets. We want the horse to accept us as leaders of the herd, to guide them safely and to provide… — Walter Zettl

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