Jackals Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years. — Tipu Sultan
Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or… — Noam Chomsky
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually… — Robert A. Heinlein
One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal. — Tipu Sultan
Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are… — Gustave Flaubert
He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out… — Frederick Forsyth
Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well. — Cyril Connolly
He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that… — Walter Hill
But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a… — Guru Nanak
Dingoes, jackals, skunks, vipers and weasel are now illegal in New York City. Well great, who's going to run CBS? — David Letterman
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed… — Ernest Hemingway
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. — Herman Melville
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. — H. L. Mencken
I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of… — James Patterson
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick… — Neil Gaiman
I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I… — C.S. Lewis
That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the… — Marilynne Robinson
All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
When Å vejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so… — Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them....… — John Steinbeck

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