Beast Quotes - Page 20

• Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

  Juvenal

  Snakes, Fellowship, Today

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• 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, obedient to their bellies.

  Sallust

  Pride, Animal, Men

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• If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

  Rumi

  Character, Angel, Men

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• Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

  Norman Mailer

  Stars, Simple, Giving

  Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.218, Random House

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• 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 from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Names, Vedas

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• What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

  Pietro Aretino

  Men, Evil, Would Be

  "Pietro Aretino, the scourge of princes" by Edward Hutton, (p. 65), 1922.

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• Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

  Mary McCarthy

  Eye, Dragons, White

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Wise, Horse, Writing

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• 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 men! If they know there is no alternative, they will fight to the death.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Men, Enemy

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• Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.

  Chairil Anwar

  Cutting, Here I Am, Solitude

  Chairil Anwar (1963). “Selected Poems”

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• If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms into unions - exactly as united now, Why then confess you must That other worlds exist in other regions of the sky, And different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts.

  Lucretius

  Men, Moon, Sky

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Alban Dewes Winspear (1956). “De Rerum Natura”, New York : Harbor Press

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• Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we're both beasts.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Eye, Animal, Bears

  Song: God's Own Drunk, 1974

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• Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

  Yunus Emre

  Speech, Burden, Lit

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• For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

  Jacques Attali

  Men, Twenties, Essentials

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.3, Manchester University Press

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• I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Goes On, Checks, Website

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• I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

  David Cook

  Guy, Different, Records

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• The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.

  Gavyn Davies

  Son, Past, Blue

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• A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

  Grant Bowler

  Running, Character, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

  America Ferrera

  Musical, Chicago, Saws

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• This world's a blessing and a beast everyday.

  Shawn Colvin

  Blessing, Reality, Everyday

  Song: Trouble, Album: A Few Small Repairs, 1996

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• We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.

  Tupac Shakur

  Reality, Waiting, Rage

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• I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.

  Bob Dylan

  Goodbye, Borderline

  Song: Idiot Wind, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

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• Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Dream, Art, Thinking

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• My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.

  Brenda Strong

  Daughter, Powerful, Real

  "'Dallas' Star Brenda Strong Talks Ann Ewing and the Resilience of Larry Hagman". Interview with Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 6, 2011.

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• Too many temples where we could worship the beast.

  Jethro Tull

  Religious, Religion, Temples

  Song: Too Many Too

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