Browsing Topic Best Cobras Quotes

May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.

Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.

Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.

He was WBC champion, I was mandatory. He had his opportunity to earn big money and defend against me, and he chose not to. It’s as simple as that. He did not want to fight ‘The Cobra’, cos he knew he was probably going to get one of these (his fists) on the chin and it was going to be all over.

The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.

The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.

I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil. So violent in their hostility to me and my work. OK, wait, wait, wait. That’s a lie. I do read the responses–and get mesmerized, like cobra hypnosis. But I laugh (mostly) at the trolls, and think about what tiny little weenies they must have. (They seem to be mostly men.) And then ALL these smart, funny people leap to my defense, which is medicine, and fills me with love and thankfulness.

We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the sources of the Indus to Cape Comorin, (for we find a Regio Pandionis near this point,) to his daughter Pandæa; but, from finding the icon of Buddha so constantly shaded with the nine Cobras, &c., I am induced to think that this Pandeism was a doctrine, which had been received both by Buddhists and Brahmins.

My favorite species to study would be Cobras and King Cobras which are two different families. They’re very intelligent, and they’re beautiful looking animals. Where they come from are countries and regions which I spend a lot of time in – South East Asia and India, those are places I go to fairly often, and so the cobras are my main interest. It’s not a snake I can maintain, but when I see them in zoos and what not, I find them interesting.

The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white – unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister’s expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her – a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied in an awkward bow around its neck.

His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra’s hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

If someone were to ask me for a short cut to sensuality, I would suggest he go shopping for a used 427 Shelby-Cobra. But it is only fair to warn you that of the 300 guys who switched to them in 1966, only two went back to women.

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

Fiction. . . . It’s like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

The city of angels? It’s the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.

I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.

A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

That’s how quickly New York City comes about – like a weather wane – or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

Mother … considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage full of cobras.

Cobras are magical. They can stand up on just energy alone.