Beast Quotes - Page 5

• Everyone has something they want, but BEAST moves together as a group.

  Yoseob

  Moving, Together, Groups

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• There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Communicate, Wild Beasts

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 124), 1862.

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• Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

  Maxim Gorky

  Truth, Men, Thinking

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• I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.

  Georges Bernanos

  Thinking, Lust, Faces

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.124, Da Capo Press

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• We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Sleep, Animal, Men

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.1685, Delphi Classics

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• If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.

  Gavin Douglas

  Eye, Doors, Envy

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• Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Born, Cultivation

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• O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Powerful, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Shakespeare's Complete Works”, p.2475, Simon and Schuster

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• When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.

  Hilaire Belloc

  People, Mind, Tails

  Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) "The Elephant"

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• But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third or fifth part, he is not a brother, but a harsh tyrant, a rude savage, nay, more, an insatiable beast that would devour the whole sweet banquet with his own gaping mouth.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Sweet, Brother, Tyrants

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• There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, People, Kind

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• It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

  Alexis Arguello

  Competition, Natural, Process

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• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Cry, Misfortunes Of Others

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• If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast

  Walt Disney

  Years, Broken, Despair

  "Beauty and the Beast", 1991.

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• Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

  Robert Browning

  Hope, Men, Progress

  'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 586

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• What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Men, Century, Raised

  "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak, 1957.

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• If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

  Glenn Frey

  Perfect, Goal, Albums

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• The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was Beauty and the Beast. I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it’s very physical. I had headaches everyday for two months.

  Hugh Jackman

  Two, Dancing, Singing

  "Hugh Jackman Peed Himself On Stage In Production Of ‘Beauty And The Beast’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

  Ray Bradbury

  Night, People, Political

  "The Murderer". Short story by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

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• In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in an updated bestiary that riffs on evolution, extinction, and what it means to be human among other species. We need this view, and you'll be right there with her on every page of Invisible Beasts.

  John Felstiner

  Real, Mean, Writing

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• a sarcastic expression, on a beast, is far more sinister than rage.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Expression

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• Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.

  Anthony Doerr

  Beautiful, Mean, Hands

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• Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Men, Law

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• If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

  Matt Chandler

  Coward, Gone, Pulpit

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• The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

  Aristotle

  Men, Misanthrope, Solitary

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