Beast Quotes - Page 18

• Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.

  Pablo Neruda

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Milton Rogovin, Pablo Neruda, Dennis Maloney, Robert Bly (1984). “Windows that open inward: images of Chile”, White Pine Pr

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• Beast Mode doesnt make excuses. It doesnt complain. Whatever youre doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

  Matt Kemp

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

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• See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.

  Edwin Muir

  Bible, Journey, Rocks

  EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”

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• No bird casts the seed on land to grow food for itself, nor do beasts plough and enclose fields claiming - this is mine, this is for my children and children's children -.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Children, Land, Bird

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• If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.

  Henry Arthur Jones

  Hate, Men, Civilization

  Henry Arthur Jones (1925). “Representative Plays: Michael and his lost angel. The liars. Mrs. Dane's defence. The hypocrites”

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• We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.

  John Muir

  God, Civilization, Race

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.167, The Mountaineers Books

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• I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that enormous brand of natural history which deals with invertebrates any more than why I do not care for brandied peaches. All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Animal, California, Interesting

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Dark, People, Mind

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi (1963). “India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'”, Asia Publishing House

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• I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.

  Dylan Thomas

  Angel, Enquiry, Upheaval

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• Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Bird, Generations

  Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.239, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

  Denis Diderot

  Character, Criticism, Vices

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• Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Safety, Use

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.34, Criss Jami

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• The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.

  P. L. Travers

  Stars, Moving, Bird

  P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son.

  Randy Travis

  War, Future, Son

  Song: Jerusalem's Cry, Album: Rise and Shine

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• Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

  Charles de Lint

  Empathy, Mind, Wizardry

  "Into the Green". Book by Charles de Lint, 1993.

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• A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Women, Opportunity, Being Thankful

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2009). “Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero”, p.55, The Floating Press

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• Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.

  Paul Gauguin

  Waiting, Brain, Way

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Different, Couture, Whole

  Interview with Jimmy Fallon, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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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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• By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the desert and the lake. It was her stern necessity : all things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower, Song, picture, form, space, thought, and character Deceive us, seeming to be many things, And are but one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Nature, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.159, The Floating Press

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• My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.

  Brenda Strong

  Daughter, Powerful, Real

  "'Dallas' Star Brenda Strong Talks Ann Ewing and the Resilience of Larry Hagman". Interview with Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 6, 2011.

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• As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

  Karl Marx

  Toil, Instruments, Function

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Bibbins Aveling, Friedrich Engels (1961). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production”

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• Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what is done for the benefit of the whole; or there are only atoms, and nothing else than a mixture and dispersion. Why, then, art thou disturbed? Say to this ruling faculty, Art thou dead, art thou corrupted, art thou playing the hypocrite, art thou become a beast, dost thou herd and feed with the rest?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Hypocrite, Intelligent

  Marcus Aurelius Antonius (2016). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.80, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Dream, Art, Thinking

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• During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess, Strategy, Monk

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