Beast Quotes

• He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

  Dr. Seuss

  Pain, Men, Fear And Loathing

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• Every man has a wild beast within him.

  Frederick The Great

  Men, Every Man, Beast Within

  Letter to Voltaire (1759)

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• The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

  Axel Munthe

  Inspirational, Freedom, Animal

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• You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

  Paul Stanley

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Top Management

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• It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

  Alexis Arguello

  Competition, Natural, Process

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• The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was Beauty and the Beast. I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it’s very physical. I had headaches everyday for two months.

  Hugh Jackman

  Two, Dancing, Singing

  "Hugh Jackman Peed Himself On Stage In Production Of ‘Beauty And The Beast’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

  Ray Bradbury

  Night, People, Political

  "The Murderer". Short story by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

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• When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Littles

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1217, Oxford University Press

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• Everyone has something they want, but BEAST moves together as a group.

  Yoseob

  Moving, Together, Groups

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• Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Skins, Bears, Sells

  "Fables (Book V)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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• The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

  Voltaire

  Political, Politics, Chains

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• A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Honesty, Integrity

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• Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

  Plotinus

  Midway, Mankind, Humankind

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• For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Flower, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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• People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Animal, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Plutarch

  Anger, Men, Savages

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.1137, Simon and Schuster

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• Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

  Aristotle

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Solitude

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• Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

  Robert Browning

  Hope, Men, Progress

  'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 586

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• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Tongue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.32

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• Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Happiness, Inspiring, Fear

  Zora Neale Hurston (2010). “Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Cry, Misfortunes Of Others

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• All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Men, Air

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast

  Walt Disney

  Years, Broken, Despair

  "Beauty and the Beast", 1991.

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• What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Men, Century, Raised

  "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak, 1957.

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• If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

  Glenn Frey

  Perfect, Goal, Albums

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