Best 302 quotes in «beast quotes» category

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

Man differs more from man than man from beast

Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

My aim is not to start a new offensive against Russian soldiers, but to deter Russia from further aggression. The thing is that the EU is always playing by the rules. Putin is always playing with the rules. At the beginning, many thought that, after annexing Crimea, the beast would calm down. But he continued by supporting the so-called separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Michael Phelps is a beast. He's like a human fish. It's really impressive.

music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.

My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.

Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be"  tes l'ont mange  . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

No beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Nor love they least Who strike with right good will To vanquish ill And fight God's battle upward from the beast.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.

One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !

Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.

Ok you want me up in a cage, then I'll come out in beast mode.

Our fans are like rabid beasts that rub themselves with the nectar that is 'Psych'.

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?

Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

Smoke. Smoke. Smoke. Only a pipe distinguishes man from beast.

Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

swore. “Barabas said you might say that. I’m supposed to tell you this.” Ascanio cleared his throat and produced a remarkably accurate impression of Barabas’s tenor. “Courage, Your Majesty.” “I will kill him.” “The Beast Lord or Barabas?” “Both.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.