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Quotes About Tiger

There are in this world two creatures that quiver intensely: the mother who finds her lost child and the tiger that comes on its prey. Javert had that intense quivering.
~ Victor Hugo
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
~ Bernard Shaw
He paced the room like a caged tiger, splendid in his wounded anger.
~ Jacqueline Carey
And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.
~ James Baldwin
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
A tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I don't answer. I count in my head: five syllables, seven, five. A tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The door opens and the tiger leaps.
~ Virgina Woolf
Mick, I love your tiger. Which isn't a euphemism for your penis. Though I really like that too.
~ Lauren Dane
I flew to Detroit and reported to Local 299 on Trumbull Avenue. That was Jimmy's home local. It was down the street from Tiger Stadium.
~ Charles Brandt
Yes! But it is your weakness that you sometimes need to see your victim and your opportunity, to sustain you. Sustain yourself without that. When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.
~ Charles Dickens
They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez, unverified
He was best known, however, for his instinct. Jade had instinct like a tiger on the prowl; it seemed to come from the very blood running in his veins.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Antes de salir al exilio, Porfirio Díaz dice: "Han soltado un tigre".
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
~ Yani Tseng
Somebody's heart says, 'I am the wind from the cold snow of the mountain, and you are the tiger whose roar will freeze in your own ears before you tremble and die in the iron knife of my winter eyes'?
~ Orson Scott Card
The Master replied, "The person who would wrestle a tiger bare-handed or march across the Yellow River,106 and who would go to his death without regret—this person I would not take along. It would have to be someone who would approach any situation with trepidation, and who would be fond of planning with an eye to success.
~ Confucius
he realized that the whispered conversations about money and jobs that all the grown-ups had all the time were the outward reflection of deep, unending terror. A fear that gnawed at every grown person. A primordial terror of the tiger outside the cave.
~ Cory Doctorow
They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
Malooh, the Bengal tiger,
~ Lawrence Anthony
He had the look of a frustrated tiger whose personal physician had recommended a strict vegetarian diet.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Someone once said to me: You never mention his looks. And it's true, I don't, I find it difficult. At that time, he was probably the most beautiful man alive, as he was certainly the most violent, but that's the problem. How do you separate a tiger's beauty from its ferocity? Or a cheetah's elegance from the speed of the attack? Achilles was like that- the beauty and the terror were two sides of a single coin.
~ Pat Barker
At the time, he was probably the most beautiful man alive, as he was certainly the most violent, but that's the problem. How do you separate a tiger's beauty from its ferocity? Or a cheetah's elegance from the speed of its attack? Achilles was like that - the beauty and the terror were two sides of a single coin.
~ Pat Barker
Walter and Bell glanced at each other, neither one relishing the idea of being the brave hero who found the escaped tiger in the bedroom.
~ Christa Faust