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Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. -- Jonathan Franzen
We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death. -- Chuck Palahniuk
But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive. -- Kristan Higgins
I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn. -- Hunter S. Thompson
You will always be a hyena. -- Arthur Rimbaud
A fly is as untamable as a hyena. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My father used to call me the laughing hyena. -- Phyllis Diller
Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart. -- David Wojnarowicz
I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind. -- Henry Rollins
A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn? -- Bob Hope
I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet. -- Tom Hollander
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. -- D. H. Lawrence
There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it. -- Winston Churchill
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf. -- George Chapman
HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that -- Ambrose Bierce
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena. -- H. Jay Dinshah
A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion. -- Sheldon Vanauken
With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea! -- Will Rogers
The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City! -- Che Guevara
All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth. -- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989. -- Philip French
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothersâ?? broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. -- Aberjhani
Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas? -- Rachel Caine
No magnetic wombats, no flying hyenas, no catfish masquerading as samurai, and, MOST CERTAINLY, no Duku jam! -- Gina Marinello-Sweeney
When cops are on the job they love lawyers like lions love hyenas, only minus the mutual respect. -- Reed Farrel Coleman
and the truth was that most of Nash's friends weren't that bad. Their girlfriends were another story. Speaking of bloodthirsty hyenas... -- Rachel Vincent
Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I am working on a new book about a boa constrictor and a litter of hyenas. The boa constrictor swallows the babies one by one, and the mother hyena dies laughing. -- E. B. White

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