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Quotes About Wolf

What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?
~ Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony
I sheep's idea of bravery : To become a wolf's pet.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals. True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not from any great desire to do so—rather because any who departed the scene would be unlikely to get a share... She struggled...not to bolt her food and almost always remembered that growling when a person spoke to you was not a proper response.
~ Jane Lindskold
all which isn't singing is merely talking and all talking's talking to oneself (whether that oneself be sought or seeking master or disciple sheep or wolf)
~ ee cummings
Some people say with the wolf kept out, our country lost its wildness. There was room for plant eaters but the woods are not the same as they were. The shadows of the forest are different, the wind is different.
~ Rick Bass
Another yap shook the room. Broken branches tumbled to the floor. "Wh-what's up there?" I asked, my knees shaking. I thought about the Norns' prophecy, naming me a harbinger of evil. "Is it—the Wolf?" "Oh, much worse," Blitzen said. "It's the Squirrel.
~ Rick Riordan
Lord Th– I mean, Thor,' said Sam, 'Won't you come with us? This is an important battle – the fire lord Surt, Fenris Wolf. Surely that's worthy of your attention.' Thor's right eye twitched. 'That's a fine offer. Really. I'd love to, but I have another pressing appointment –' 'Game of Thrones,' Marvin explained.
~ Rick Riordan
The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything—except the truth.
~ Rick Riordan
She did not want to say good-bye. She did not want to utter those two dead-sounding words. She turned to look at her taiga. It's never good-bye, Edme, said Winks. It's merely slaan boladh. Slaan boladh? Edme repeated. Old wolf for 'until the next scent post.' Slaan boladh, Edme murmured, and turned and left the taiga to sleep.
~ Kathryn Lasky
It was as if the spirit of his first gyre and his last gyre had comingled. Why is the old wolf weeping? Why am I weeping? - Foalan, Star Wolf
~ Kathryn Lasky
The stairs aren't challenging enough anymore? he asked. Antonio laughed. Challenge has nothing to do with it, Jer. I'd say it's the big bad wolf huffing and puffing at her door up there.
~ Kelley Armstrong
We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form. A wry smile. Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Even a man who is pure of heart And says his prayers at night May turn to a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright.
~ Ken Kesey
When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.
~ William C. Brown
Then everything includes itself in power,Power into will, will into appetite;And appetite, a universal wolf,So doubly seconded with will and power,Must make perforce a universal prey,And last eat up himself.
~ William Shakespeare
We sat perfectly still in the dim light as the wolf approached closer, head cocked, mouth closed, and ears semi-erect. With these signs of both curiosity and trepidation, it took a step forward and then backed off a ways, then took a few steps forward again. It lifted its nose and sniffed intently, and finally stopped at about eight feet away. For a moment all three of us were perfectly still, wondering what was going to happen next.
~ David Moskowitz
precision in gardens was too much like turning a wolf on the prowl into a pug with an embroidered ruffle for a collar. She much preferred the wolf.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
She ate like a polite wolf.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Kierkegaard writes, "…riches and abundance come hypocritically clad in sheep's clothing pretending to be security against anxieties and they become then the object of anxiety…they secure a man against anxieties just about as well as the wolf which is put to tending the sheep secures them…against the wolf.
~ Richard J. Foster
The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am! And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.
~ Roald Dahl
Never and never, my girl riding far and near In the land of the hearthstone tales, and spelled asleep, Fear or believe that the wolf in the sheepwhite hood Loping and bleating roughly and blithely shall leap, my dear, my dear, Out of a lair in the flocked leaves in the dew dipped year To eat your heart in the house in the rosy wood.
~ Roald Dahl
A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.
~ Robert E. Howard
She's a wolf. Get it right, crap for brains. Tink's knickers, you have got to be the stupidest lunker I've ever lit on.
~ Kim Harrison