Beast Quotes - Page 17

• Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise." Beast: "You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear them: nor any quiet water in ponds. And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?

  Robin McKinley

  Beautiful, Believe, Night

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• It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wall, Writing, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• A massive beast dashed along the mountain apex. Astamur reached for his rifle. “A demon?” “No, not a demon.” I might have preferred one . “That’s my boyfriend.” Atsany and the shepherd turned to look at me. “Boyfriend?” Astamur said. Curran saw us. He paused on a stone crag and roared. The raw declaration of strength cracked through the mountains, rolling down the cliffs like a rockslide. “Yep. Don’t worry. He’s harmless.

  Ilona Andrews

  Worry, My Boyfriend, Mountain

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• The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Sea, Fairy Stories

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am anti-life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds…of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?" "I am hope.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dark, World, Judgment

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• Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.

  Robert Burns

  Time, Men, Night

  1790 'Tam o' Shanter. A Tale'.

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• It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Believe, Miracle

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• Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Inspirational, Food, Animal

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• People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.

  Vladimir Korolenko

  Freedom, Angel, Light

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• The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

  David Hume

  Happiness, Lonely, Art

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.664, Delphi Classics

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• It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

  Patrick Henry

  Hope, Truth, Eye

  Speech in the Virginia Convention (March 1775).

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• Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
  To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
  He prayeth well, who loveth well
  Both man and bird and beast.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Farewell, Men

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 613 (1798)

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• In search of my Love
  I will go over mountains and strands;
  I will gather no flowers,
  I will fear no wild beasts;
  And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.

  John of the Cross

  Life, Flower, Mountain

  St. John of the Cross (2013). “A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST .... explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Adventure, Men, Vacation

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• Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Animal, Pet, Welfare

  1608 Sicinius. Coriolanus, act 2, sc.1, l.6.

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• I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less.

  Rumi

  Dying, Dresses, Spirituality

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• At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

  Alfred Noyes

  Distance, Men, Order

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• The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Real, Science, Acceptance

  "God and Evolution". The New York Times, February 26, 1922.

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• Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

  John Dickinson

  Race, Government, Liberty

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• As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

  Plutarch

  Lying, Desert, World

  Parallel Lives "Aemilius Paulus" sec. 5

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• We also have a dog. His name's Beast. He's a sheepdog. He's super cute. I love him.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Cute, Dog, I Love Him

  "The Best Tech Quotes of 2014" by Vauhini Vara, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2014.

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• In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage

  Marcelo Rios

  Jobs, Tennis, Cages

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• Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

  Max Muller

  Men, Language, Divides

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• I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.

  John Calvin

  Struggle, Effort, Vices

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• [T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Animal, Rights, Europe

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