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  • You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

  • It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]

    Past   Sheep   Wool  
  • It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

    Travel   Nice   Sheep  
    Janet Frame, Carole Ferrier (1995). “The Janet Frame reader”, Womens Pr Ltd
  • What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

  • I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

    School   Sheep   Black  
  • It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

    Sheep   Mind   Doe  
    Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.720, Head of Zeus
  • A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

    Men   Sheep   Littles  
    Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet
  • One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' said Will. 'Well there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the conversation.

    Running   Book   Sheep  
    Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
  • Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

    Art   Military   Reading  
    Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”
  • Pope Francis seems to be a much nicer man than Pope Benedict, but I'm not sure that his views on things that really matter are all that different. Whereas Benedict was perhaps a wolf in wolf's clothing, Francis is perhaps a wolf in sheep's clothing.

    Men   Sheep   Views  
    Source: newrepublic.com
  • A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.

    Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.80, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep.

  • All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

    Nice   Sheep   America  
    Greg Bear (2003). “Darwin's Children”, p.125, Del Rey
  • A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

    Dog   Book   Sheep  
  • I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.

    Death   Son   Sheep  
    "Fictional character: Baron Felix von Geigern". "Grand Hotel", www.imdb.com. 1932.
  • Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks.

    Dog   Mean   Men  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
  • Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future, the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.

    Science   Animal   Past  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.127, Bantam
  • History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

    Sheep   People   Majority  
    Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.258, Simon and Schuster
  • If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.

  • I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself

  • You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

    Sheep   Guilt   Lambs  
  • Jesus Christ conferred power upon Peter, but what sort of power was it? Jesus’ three questions to Peter about love are followed by three commands: feed my lambs, feed my sheep. Let us never forget that authentic power is service, and that the Pope too, when exercising power, must enter ever more fully into that service which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.

    Jesus   Exercise   Sheep  
    Pope Francis' Homily for inaugural Mass of Petrine Ministry, w2.vatican.va. March 19, 2013.
  • Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

    Lying   Sheep   Years  
    Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.244, Delacorte Press
  • He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He marveled at the gullibility and vulnerability of his fellow humans. No wonder the churches called them sheep. They were woolly-headed pack animals being herded around for the benefit of whoever knew how to control the dogs.

    Dog   Animal   Sheep  
  • You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change your heart into green grass, and all you love into a sheep. I'll turn you into a bad poet with dreams.

    Dream   Heart   Eye  
    Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc
  • The Lord greatly loves the repenting sinner and mercifully presses him to His bosom: "Where were you, My child? I was waiting a long time for you." The Lord calles all to Himself with the voice of the Gospel, and his voice is heard in all the world: "Come to me, my sheep. I created you, and I love you. My love for you brought Me to earth, and I suffered all things for the sake of your salvation, and I want you all to know my love, and to say, like the apostles on Tabor: Lord, it is good for us to be with You."

  • some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.

    Sheep   People   Religion  
    Marjorie Holmes (1985). “I'Ve Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations With God”, Doubleday Books
  • if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?

    Flower   Sheep   Doe  
  • I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.

    "The Gum Thief". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2011.
  • We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

    "Freedom fighters" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.
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