Best 302 quotes in «beast quotes» category

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 beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

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

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 truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The human tongue is a beast that few can master.

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

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

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

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.