Beast Quotes - Page 19

• When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

  Epictetus

  Anger, Animal, Levels

  Epictetus (1926). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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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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• I'm finally able to tell you... that I will be playing Belle in Disney's new live-action Beauty and the Beast! It was such a big part of my growing up, it almost feels surreal that I'll get to dance to 'Be Our Guest' and sing 'Something There'. My six year old self is on the ceiling - heart bursting. Time to start some singing lessons. I can't wait for you to see it.

  Emma Watson

  Growing Up, Heart, Self

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Jan 26, 2015

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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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• 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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• 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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• Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Mother, Fear, Lying

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• I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell from note to note as a brook from rock to rock. I did not hear the strains after they had issued from the flute, but before they were breathed into it, for the original strain precedes the sound by as much as the echo follows after, and the rest is the perquisite of the rocks and trees and beasts. Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts, the very undertow of our life's stream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Night, Echoes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2088, Delphi Classics

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• Beware the beast, but enjoy the feast he offers.

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Enjoy, Offers

  "Song: "Beauty of the Beast"("Century Child")". 2002.

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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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• When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Animal, Hands, History

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

  Chris Jericho

  Funny, Men, Wwe

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• I wish you the beast of luck!

  Chris Jericho

  Wwe, Luck, Wish

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Men, Culture, Barbarians

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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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• 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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• 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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• The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Devil, Saint

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Innocence, Function

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.91, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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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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