Beast Quotes

• Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Happiness, Inspiring, Fear

  Zora Neale Hurston (2010). “Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Fighting, Mind

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.116, Penguin

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• He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Art, Atheist, Philosophy

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• A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Doe, Politics

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.8383, Delphi Classics

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• Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but youre more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

  Ted Danson

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

  "Oceans Activist Ted Danson on California's Shark Fin Ban (Exclusive Q&A)". Interview with Degen Pener, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2011.

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• Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

  Ouida

  Hope, Heart, Men

  Ouida (1889). “A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters. "Deadly dash"”

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• Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?

  William Golding

  Thinking, Fancy Things, Reason Why

  Lord of the Flies ch. 8 (1954).

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• What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

  Mario Puzo

  Real, Stupid, Thinking

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• No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Sarcastic, Dirty, Thinking

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• Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent

  Klaus Kinski

  Talent, Born, Claws

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• Writing is the beast unto itself.

  Omar Epps

  Writing

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• I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Men, Thinking, Able

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• I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again

  Alan Ladd

  Roles, Berlin, Enough

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• I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Thinking, Other Cultures, People

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• Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.

  Mike Judge

  Kings, Thinking, Yellow

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• Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

  W. L. George

  Men, Glimpse, Given

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• Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.

  Isabella Bird

  Medicine, Gold, Weight

  Isabella Bird (2010). “The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

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• You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

  Steve Chabot

  Cutting, Important, Taxes

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• Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

  Leonard Maltin

  Firsts, Best Picture, Animated

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• I'm not fit company for man or beast.

  Billy Strayhorn

  Men, Fit, Company

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• We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Running, Stress, Artist

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• Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
  A being darkly wise and rudely great...
  He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest;
  In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;
  In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
  Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Fear, Doubt

  Alexander Pope (1867). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.18

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• desire is a beast that must be fed!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Desire, Feds

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping with Strangers”, p.85, Penguin

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• A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

  Victor Hugo

  Fear, Men, Thousand

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7859, Delphi Classics

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