Beast Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield;
  Learn from the beasts the physic of the field;
  The arts of building from the bee receive;
  Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Art, Yield

  Alexander Pope (1763). “An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.70

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• The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

  D. H. Lawrence

  Autumn, Scent, November

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4223, Delphi Classics

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• A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had.

  J. Christopher Herold

  Princess, Heart, Men

  J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough:
  
  Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable.
  Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.

  Tim Ferriss

  Appreciation, Views, Two

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• [T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Ocean, Eye

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

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• I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.

  Shaun White

  Land, Burden, Wanted

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• The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Fear, Church Bells, Wind

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1998). “Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales”, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You've got a man-beast, and a ho-beast.

  Chris Jericho

  Funny, Men, Wwe

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• The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Beautiful, Believe, Chinese

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Men, Culture, Barbarians

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• It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Iron, People, Giving

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• I wish you the beast of luck!

  Chris Jericho

  Wwe, Luck, Wish

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• In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Men, Fire

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 1 (1940)

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• Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.

  Bob Kerrey

  Whales, Eternity, Belly

  Bob Kerrey, Robert Kerrey (2003). “When I Was a Young Man: A Memoir”, Harvest Books

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• At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Two, World, Four

  Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.68, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  William James

  Men, Kind, Prey

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Friendly, Poor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.359, Harvard University Press

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• I absolutely love my daily driver Ford Raptor, especially since I live out here in the mountains of Park City, so to build out this mountain assault vehicle with a Raptor as the base platform made total sense to me. It's an absolute beast of a machine and I'm stoked with how it's turned out. Next up is for me to take it deep into the backcountry ASAP to help me and some friends slay some powder on our snowboards for a video project due out later this year.

  Ken Block

  Years, Cities, Mountain

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• Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
  Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
  For in best understandings sin began,
  Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
  Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
  Are beasts in all but white integrity.

  John Donne

  Integrity, Angel, Men

  John Donne (1896). “Poems of John Donne”

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• If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

  Rumi

  Character, Angel, Men

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