Hyena Quotes (14 quotes)

“Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.
A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud,
it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: beauty, bitterness, doubt, envy, gorilla, great-people, greatness, growth, hyena, lion, lotus, lotus-flower, mockery, monkey, mud, nightingale, self, singing, song, success, worth, worthiness

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“Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

tags: art, artists, artists-life, coffee, creation, creativity, fiction-writing, hyena, inspiration, novelists, payne, roman-payne, work, writing

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“A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: animosity, attitude, bitter, bitterness, confidence, courage, criticize, drive, faith, focus, gossip, greatness, hate, haters, hyena, insult, jealous, jealousy, judge, laugh, laughter, life, lion, lion-quote, mock, mockery, negative, negativity, perseverance, persevere, personality, ridicule, small-minds, strength, strong, success, successful-people

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“It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: animosity, annoy, annoyance, annoying, attitude, bird, bitter, bitterness, competitive, confidence, courage, criticize, drive, envious, envy, faith, focus, gossip, greatness, hate, haters, hyena, ignore, insult, intrude, intruder, intrusion, intrusive, jealous, jealousy, judge, laugh, laughter, life, mock, mockery, negative, negativity, nightingale, nightingales, perseverance, persevere, personality, positive, positive-attitude, positivity, ridicule, small, small-minds, song, strength, strong, success, successful-people, ugly, woodpecker, woodpeckers

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“I am working on a new book about a boa constrictor and a litter of hyenas. The boa constrictor swallows the babies one by one, and the mother hyena dies laughing.”
― E.B. White

tags: boa-constrictor, hyena, hyenas, laughing, snake, snakes

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“A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: animosity, attitude, banana, bitter, bitterness, confidence, courage, criticize, drive, faith, focus, gorilla, gossip, greatness, hate, haters, hyena, insult, jealous, jealousy, judge, laugh, laughter, life, mock, mockery, monkey, monkeys, negative, negativity, perseverance, persevere, personality, positive, positive-attitude, positivity, ridicule, small-minds, strength, strong, success, successful-people

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“One thing at a time,' said the Boy. 'You must be patient. This is a day of hope and wild revenge. Do not interrupt me. I am a courier from another world. I bring you golden words.

Listen!' said the Boy. 'Where I come from there is no more fear. But there is a roaring and a bellowing and a cracking of bones. And sometimes there is silence when, lolling on your thrones, your slaves adore you.”
― Mervyn Peake, Boy in Darkness and Other Stories

tags: bones, boy, goat, golden-words, hyena, revenge

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“Totul se învârte în jurul Octopussy, un lucru murdar, șocant, scârbos – pentru oricine. Sau poate ăia care i-au cumpărat cartea unchiului, poate ălora le-a plăcut. Wow! Ea și întreaga ei familie au fost personaje într-o carte. „Poate încă suntem“... Hahaha, ce gând nebun! Revenind, totuși. Personajele unei cărți care nu se mai comportă deloc ca personajele acelei cărți. „O fi vreun sequel?“ Hyena trebuie să-și înăbușe fața în pernă, pentru a nu râde singură la miezul nopții.”
― Cristina Boncea, Becks merge la școală

tags: boncea, hyena, octopussy

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“The hyena found it difficult to walk in my high-heeled shoes.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

tags: animals, hyena, shoes

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“Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

tags: face, hyena, maid, pounce, ring

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“Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp,” Cody said.
“You evidently don’t know Jessie,” Wyatt said. “If she’s in one of her tempers she’d put a hyena to flight ...”
― Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon

tags: henpecked, hyena, temper, wyatt-earp

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“Lions will never debate with hyenas.”
― M.Rehan Behleem

tags: debate, hyena, lion, lion-quotes

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“Hyenas 'appear to violate the rules of mammalian biology,' Holekamp tells me. 'Studying the oddballs can teach you about the basics,' she explains. 'They allow us to gain insight into what the rules actually are.' And by showing us an alternative way to sociality and intelligence, they help us better understand our own beloved pets, and perhaps even ourselves.”
― Sy Montgomery, Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind

tags: alien, hyena, intelligence, matriarchy, social

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“Would you leave a hyena in charge of the chicken coop?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

tags: animals, anthony-t-hincks, chicken-coop, hincks, hyena, insanity, quote-of-the-day, war

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