Rhinoceros Quotes

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  • The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

    Animal   Rhinos   Way  
  • It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

    Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.7, Souvenir Press
  • It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

    "Choosing the Future: The Power of Strategic Thinking". Book by Stuart Wells, p. 15, 1997.
  • I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.

    Rhinos   Bird   Be Kind  
  • Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

    Marine   Whales   Land  
  • They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience....And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind - the elephant and the rhinoceros.

  • What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

    Men   Nerves   Shapes  
    'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 99
  • Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

    Freedom   War   Names  
  • A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

    Vance Havner (1988). “The Best of Vance Havner”, Baker Publishing Group
  • There are many ways to be influential. You can work for politicians or in government and make a difference. And for young women who are interested in running for office, you just have to decide you're going to follow Eleanor Roosevelt's maxim about growing skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros, and you have to be incredibly well-prepared - better prepared [than a man], actually - and you have to figure out how you're going to present yourself, and you have to have a support group around you, because it can be really a brutal experience.

    Source: www.glamour.com
  • People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.

    Hurt   People   Skins  
    "Janet Jackson Takes Control" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 9, 2009.
  • The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

    Animal   Age   Yards  
  • I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.

    Dog   Real   Passion  
    Source: www.americansuburbx.com
  • If a woman wants to succeed in the public arena, she needs to grow skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros. I have certainly, as you can tell, have had to learn how to do that, and there's a lot of good moisturizers I can tell you about if you're interested. The second thing is to learn how to take criticism seriously but not personally.

    Criticism   Skins   Needs  
    "7 times Hillary Clinton handled fashion haters like a boss" by Chrissy Mahlmeister, www.mtv.com. April 15, 2015.
  • Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

  • A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.

    Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.128, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

    "Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters".
  • Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros

    Children   Heart   Mind  
  • Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

    Running   Water   Path  
    "Brilliant Mistakes" by Nick Paumgarten, www.newyorker.com. November 8, 2010.
  • Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

    Skins   Needs   Tough  
  • You can only predict things after they have happened.

    'Le Rhinocèros' (1959) act 3
  • Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

    Men   Sea   White  
  • If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

  • It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

    Doe   Looks   Interviews  
    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
  • A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

    Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”
  • Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

  • A charging black rhinoceros is nothing to mess with. When it is headed straight toward you, it is the ultimate exercise in sphincter control. In my case, it was a strange bit of weather that caused one to charge me.

  • Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin.

    Heart   Two   Leader  
  • During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.

    Crazy   Ideas   Religion  
    Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.338, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

    Jobs   Moral   Prime  
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