Beast Quotations | Page 3

Writing is the beast unto itself.

Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.

And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: / But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

The unicorn is a mythical beast,

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.

He was so very large and so very gruff that he rather terrified her, but he always behaved correctly in public, and there was a lot to be said for a man who sported such well-tailored jackets---even if he did change into a ferocious beast once a month.

There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

The terrible beast, that no one may understand, Came to my side, and put down his head in love.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully…

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

I am the beast, Feed me rappers or feed me beats

Ok you want me up in a cage, then I'll come out in beast mode.

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

And once you say this is true, you start naming the beast that hurts you - so I started doing this. Other truths come out.

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

The ministry or service of prophets and witnesses, mourning and prophesying in sackcloth, God has directly commissioned and upheld all during the reign of the beast and antichrist of Rome. This witness is probably near finished, and the bloody storm of slaughter is yet to be expected and prepared for.

I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.

I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn't happened, I wouldn't have started acting.

In choosing not to be a beast, I discovered my humanity. I became autodidactic, self-educated - a critical thinker.

And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will .

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us...

The human tongue is a beast that few can master.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

Can't all beasts be tamed?

I am the beast at the end of the rope.

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

the beast is the monster that destroys your dream

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

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

Man is neither angel nor beast.

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

Either a beast or a god.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god...

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

My God, till I received thy stroke, / How like a beast was I! / So unaccustomed to the yoke, / So backward to comply.

But the sea-fowl has gone to her nest, / The beast is laid down in his lair.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !

I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

And he, he himself...the Grinch...carved the roast-beast!

The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.

O powerful love,that in some respects makes a beast a man,in some other, a man a beast.

Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss.

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces.

If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

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

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.

Ain't fit for man nor beast