Beast Quotes
880 Beast quotes by 628 unique authors
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A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
— Timothy Spall
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There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are…
— William Shakespeare
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Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight,…
— Pythagoras
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No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse and…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I…
— Winston Churchill
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The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?
— Anne Rice
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Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really…
— James A. Murphy III
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It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.
— Stephen Harrigan
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The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.
— Sun Tzu
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...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus,…
— Hesiod
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And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I…
— Yann Martel
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The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.
— Joseph de Maistre
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I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for…
— Emile M. Cioran
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This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death,…
— Margaret Visser
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Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.
— Mary Balogh
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Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and…
— Heinrich Heine
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Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to…
— Christopher Lasch
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Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.
— George Whitefield
Who Wrote These Beast Quotes
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