- Nov 07, 2020
Wolves Quotes
Predators, pacifists, and the movies between.
This wolves quotes set pairs the well-known line about pacifists resembling sheep who think wolves are vegetarian with a more scientific reflection on how fear of humans reshaped wolves over thousands of years. See our Being quotes too.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and humans on the steppe. Wolves were an integral part of keeping the balance of nature, ensuring that plagues of rabbits and rodents didn't break out, which in turn protected the all-important pasture for the nomads' herds.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reflective of the deep sense of gratitude and respect Mongolians reserved for wolves, there was a belief that only through wolves could the spirit of a deceased human be set free to go to Heaven.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things on the steppe, and I didn't believe them at first.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never expected to win Young Player or Player of the Season because there is some fantastic competition - Ruben Neves at Wolves, James Maddison at Norwich, and Tom Cairney here at Fulham. To win those two awards is a special feeling.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
- Birds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fiction film, there are so many trappings - money, glory, champagne and supermodels - that attract the wolves. But in documentary film, there's none of that, so the wolves stay away. The only people who make docs are people who are curious about other people and just like making documentaries.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
These 'lone wolves,' people like to call them, you've got to look at them not like a lone wolf but an individual operator who's been convinced in their head, brainwashed, whatever, that this is the way to go. And they will carry out their assaults systematically throughout.
- Succeed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lone wolves won't succeed with IoT. This is a team sport.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Mexican gray wolves are actually responsible for the spark of legendary environmentalists Aldo Leopold and Ernest Seton. In both cases, the men found their lives and souls forever changed after they killed Mexican gray wolves.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020