Wild Quotes

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Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The… — Henry Ward Beecher
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher. — Michael Eisner
We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part… — Wallace Stegner
When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems. — Charles Bukowski
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink — Ben Jonson
Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty… — Terry Kay
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing… — John Lighton Synge
It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one. — Alex Faickney Osborn
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon… — Isoroku Yamamoto
At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns… — Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior
The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end. — Ernest Thompson Seton
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a… — Violette Leduc
In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by… — Henry David Thoreau
I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger… — Denise Richards
I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love. — August Strindberg
Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we… — Mary Oliver
Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him. — Minnie Pearl
Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses. — Edward Topsell
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once… — Otto Hermann Kahn

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