Beast Quotes - Page 31

• Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

  Nas

  Crazy, Divorce, Love Is

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

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• Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.

  James Patterson

  Nuts, People, Hollywood

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• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Angel, Thinking, Wings

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• You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

  Junior Seau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Athlete

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• It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Believe

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.346, Running Press

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• Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

  William Golding

  Lord

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Writing, Sleep

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

  Rumi

  Struggle, Ignorance, Angel

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Talking, Water

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

  H. G. Wells

  Animal, Men, Clouds

  "Fictional chracter: Edward Douglas". "The Island of Dr. Moreau ", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation." -Kate & Curran to Jim

  Ilona Andrews

  Vacation, Want, Chance

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• We see ourselves in other people’s eyes. It’s the nature of the human race; we are a species of reflection, hungry for it in every facet of our existence. Maybe that’s why vampires seem so monstrous to us—they cast no reflection. Parents, if they’re good ones, reflect the wonder of our existence and the success we can become. Friends, well chosen, show us pretty pictures of ourselves, and encourage us to grow into them. The Beast shows us the very worst in ourselves and makes us know it’s true .

  Karen Marie Moning

  Eye, Reflection, Race

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.601, Dell

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• The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

  Donald Miller

  Selfish, Believe, Responsibility

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.107, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow. 'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail. 'It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy. But whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast.' 'Perhaps you have heart disease,' said the Tin Woodman. 'It may be,' said the Lion.

  L. Frank Baum

  Kings, Heart, Eye

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; The Marvelous Land of Oz; Ozma of Oz”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Hate, Reality

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• Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Healing, Angel, Wings

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• My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Goats, Too Much

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.593, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, and gave me the softest place to sleep, and nursed me back to health, and haven't asked for anything in return. The animals are on the other side of the fence: monsters wearing uniforms. They speak softly, and tell lies, and smile as they're slitting your throat.

  Lauren Oliver

  Rip, Lying, Sleep

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Dear Isabelle, Alec is about to have a nervous breakdown. If you do not immediately desist planing my wedding to your brother, I will come back to Manhattan and blow up the Institute. I will turn Church into a man-eating beast who will rampage through the streets of Manhattan, stepping on mundanes. And I will make you fat. Love, Magnus

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Blow, Men

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• Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened,—as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Regret, Heart, Men

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.620, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her teeth were bared like a beast of prey. Her eyes were glittering, black as coal. She moved with the lightning speed of a tarantula and seemed totally focus on her prey as she swung the club again, striking Martin in the ribs.

  Steig Larsson

  Eye, Voice, Long

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• The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping.

  Virginia Woolf

  Horse, Moving, Fall

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.109, Virginia Woolf

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• Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Aunt, Simple

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• I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside of me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, towards life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

  Veronica Roth

  Real, Eye, Animal

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• You do realize you just insulted me, right?" "How so?" "You implied that I can't protect her or my people." I looked at him. "That's not at all what I meant." "Apologize and I'll let it go." I kept my hands firmly on the iron rail before me. Grabbing the weight bar and walloping the Beast Lord upside the head wouldn't be the best diplomatic move. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty." There. I was civil. It almost killed me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Sorry, Moving, Hands

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.109, Penguin

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