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"I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties."
"Typically the person who raises the money, or puts up the money to start the business, owns the lion's share of the business. So learn how to sell and keep learning. It will usually be your own fear that you have to overcome."
"The lion is not so fierce as they paint him."
"f you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong."
"A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat ."
"I'm like a lion - I roar. If someone betrays me, I won't be a victim. I don't sulk, I get angry. I go immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain."
"Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!"
"Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?"
"One law for the lion and ox is oppression."
"The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God."
"The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion."
"If, in order to succeed in an enterprise, I were obliged to choose between fifty deer commanded by a lion, and fifty lions commanded by a deer, I should consider myself more certain of success with the first group than with the second."
"Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you."
"Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion."
"I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion."
"It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion."
"For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard."
"I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up."
"Id like to be a lion... they are very family-oriented. Unfortunately. too many wild animals are afraid at what man can do to them."
"Every wolf's and lion's howl Raises from Hell a human soul."
