Beast Quotes - Page 30

• Who was it who said, 'I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish.'? Whoever it was, I agree with him.

  A. Edward Newton

  Book, Soul, Buying

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• Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

  Jeb Bush

  Political, Lenses, It Is What It Is

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• Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

  Aeschylus

  Passion, Men, Victory

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• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Animal, Class

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• Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Women, Men, Behave

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

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• I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

  Cate Blanchett

  Acting, Likes, Strange

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

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• We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, Men, White Man

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.36

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• As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

  A. S. Byatt

  Girl, Teacher, Nice

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• In my mind's eye Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

  A. S. Byatt

  Weed, Eye, Fire

  "Reading while you're wonder-wounded" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Respect, Philosophical

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

  Doris Day

  Funny Love, Live Life, Animal

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

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• Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

  Elizabeth I

  Lions, Destruction, Fear Not

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• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  Nathan Fillion

  Art, Believe, Tv Shows

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.

  Jane Fonda

  War, Equal Pay, People

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• It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.

  Woody Harrelson

  Personality, Odd, Fame

  "Woody Harrelson: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'Agostino, www.esquire.com. October 15, 2008.

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• All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Intellectual, Mind, Facts

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  I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

  Hulk Hogan

  Brother, Men, Evil

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• I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Fun, Mean, Dark

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded — a mere book to keep the poor in order.

  Charles Kingsley

  Bible, Biblical, Special

  "Politics for the People".

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• A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Our World, May, Satisfaction

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• Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Kings, Meals, Three

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• Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Abuse, Pet, Pests

  "Inside the Minds of Animals" by Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. August 5, 2010.

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• Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

  Edmund Leach

  Men, Reason, Cooks

  Edmund Leach (1989). “Claude Levi-Strauss”, p.102, University of Chicago Press

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• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Struggle, Cutting

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• There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.

  Moby

  Keys, Rights, Differences

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