The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.
Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.
I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.
Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.
Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
I am the black sheep of my family. They are all super talented and intelligent and got proper jobs. Most of my family is in medicine, actually. They are all too clever to be doing what I do.
Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.
Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.
I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.
If you're a sexy actress, it's hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing they've seen you in. People are like sheep, and they're like, 'Oh, that's what she does well.'
You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.
I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.
Scotland is a picturesque country where the people are friendly yet completely incomprehensible. Also, the national delicacy is a sheep's stomach filled with its liver, lungs, and heart.
You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.