Best 302 quotes in «beast quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.

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

The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

the beast is the monster that destroys your dream

The Beast Lord way: often wrong but never in doubt.

The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

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

The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.

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

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

The human tongue is a beast that few can master.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out.

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

There is no beast more cruel than man.

There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

The terrible beast, that no one may understand, Came to my side, and put down his head in love.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.