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Quotes About Beast

Of course, we would like to tell her which. But no one may know the shape of the tale in which they move. And, perhaps, we do not truly know what sort of beast it is, either. Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
This was how it was done: you bare your belly to a great beast and endure trials and it all works itself out. There is a treasure or a sword. Or a woman. And that thing is yours not because you defeated anything, or because your flesh was hard and unyielding, but because you were worthy of it, worthy all along. The trials and the beast were just a way of telling the world you wanted it, and the world asking in her hard way, hard as bones and hollow mountains, if you really and truly did.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
A sorrow is a resourceful beast.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Some lioness whelped you on a mountain rock In Libya, or else you're Scylla's child Whose womb's all barking dogs, for only a wild Beast with the nature of a beast could mock A desperate man making a last appeal Down on his knees. Bitch heart too hard to feel!
~ Catullus
Quien no ha deseado por lo menos una vez en su vida ser un santo, es, todo lo más, una bestia
~ Giovanni Papini
One knows one's madness, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.
~ Glen Duncan
But wulf did what it does: Simply insisted. Simply burned through. Simply defied. The same shrugging, grinning continuance. The nature of life. The nature of the beast.
~ Glen Duncan
"The Purple Cow" Reflections on a Mythic Beast, Who's quite Remarkable, at Least I never Saw a Purple Cow— I never Hope to See One; But I can tell you Anyhow I'd rather See than Be One.
~ Gelett Burgess, May 1895
Garfield: My inner beast desires a snack! Jon: How about a nice, frothy fruit smoothie? Garfield: Inner beasts don't do frothy and fruity.
~ Jim Davis, Garfield, 2006
When I work as a beast, I drink as a beast. When I live like a man, I drink like a man.
~ Jack London
There's a beast in me. I destroy those I cannot control. I must be certain that those close to me share my identical interests. I'm benevolent within that construction. I'm ghastly outside of it.
~ James Ellroy
I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
~ John Lasseter
Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.
~ Plutarch
At Real Madrid, I did heading drills with Cristiano Ronaldo. You see him go up for headers, that spring and power - he is a real beast. At Juventus, I saw Fernando Llorente, how he finds space and directs his headers.
~ Alvaro Morata
It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring the beast down. We're all the same.
~ Clive Barker
Smoke. Smoke. Smoke. Only a pipe distinguishes man from beast.
~ Honoré Daumier
.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
~ Aristotle
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
~ John Webster
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
~ Ouida
If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.
~ Rumi
A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
~ Victor Hugo
Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Motivated by fear and driven by the elusive dream of normalcy, people will continue lining up for future jabs until the final one, which I believe is the mark of the Beast, fundamentally changes them into what the WEF states will cause people to "rethink what it means to be human.
~ Terry James
she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however she longs for requital, however long she waits, may receive in return the reverse of what she gives, the dark side of the moon.
~ Thomas Burnett Swann