Beasts Quotes

306 quotes by 245 authors

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls? — Anne Rice
The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming. — Sun Tzu
...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
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
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
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
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
When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood. — James F. Cooper
The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell… — Henry David Thoreau
It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own… — William James
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed? — Thomas Carlyle
The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence. — Annie Dillard
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings. — Juvenal
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone,… — Sallust
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars. — Norman Mailer
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us… — Norman Mailer
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! — Pietro Aretino
Do not press an enemy at bay. Prince Fu Ch'ai said: "Wild beasts, when at bay, fight desperately. How much more is this true of… — Sun Tzu

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