Beasts Quotes
306 quotes by 245 authors
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Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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To be honest, I thought it was similar to animal husbandry." Sally's tone turned dry. "Sometimes, my lady I'm afraid it isn't that different." Pippa…
— Sarah MacLean
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Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said…
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.
— Ovid
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People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.
— Vladimir Korolenko
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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by…
— David Hume
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It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she…
— Patrick Henry
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We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the…
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
— William Shakespeare
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At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above…
— Alfred Noyes
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The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image…
— William Jennings Bryan
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What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
— Chief Seattle
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Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants…
— Eduardo Galeano
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Young children are such nasty little beasts!
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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