#lions

...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory. ↗

— Yann Martel

#lions #nature #wild-animals #life

None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion. He was an old lion, prepared from birth to lose his life rather than to leave it. But he had the dignity of all free creatures, and so he was allowed his moment. It was hardly a glorious moment. The two men who shot him were indifferent as men go, or perhaps they were less than that. At least they shot him without killing him, and then turned the unsconscionable eye of a camera upon his agony. It was a small, a stupid, but a callous crime. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#hunting #lions #stupidity #tourists #life

As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#area #being #bring #committee #create

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#defeating #him #his #i #i love

If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole. ↗

— Leo McKern

#get #i #known #millions #obit

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#alcohol #bad #children #comes #country

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#children #christ #countless #countless millions #families

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#happy #hero #millions #people #thought

I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#could #dollars #enough #get #i

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all. ↗