When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that. — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought. — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage… — Jerome Isaac Friedman Copy Share Image
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. — Julius Caesar Scaliger Copy Share Image
“IF YOU COME NEAR THIS BOAT, I WILL CUT OFF HIS HEAD, D'YOU UNDERSTAND, SAVAGES?” — Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I did a movie called 'The Savages' with Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, where I played a nurse, and it showed… — Gbenga Akinnagbe Copy Share Image
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“He used the word savages with affection, as if he liked them a little for it. In his nature was a respect… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Thus it is that they whom we denominate "savages" are made to deserve the title. When the inhabitants of some sequestered island… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A lot of people love Tarantino’s films because they’re spectacular, they’re beautiful, they’re wonderful. He hires the best group of artists -… — Demian Bichir Copy Share Image
Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade' — David Ansen Copy Share Image
The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
“A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life,… — Dale Breckenridge Carnegie Copy Share Image
“He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
“No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference. — Jewel Copy Share Image
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. — William Golding Copy Share Image
The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
He'd kill for her, destroy for her, savage anyone who dared attempt to take her from him. And he would never let… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
