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Quotes About Beast

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
~ Josh Billings
Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.
~ Dennis Rodman
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.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.
~ Marek Edelman
You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
~ Tom Stoppard
I've had many challenges - every entrepreneur does - it's the nature of the beast.
~ Richard Branson
Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
~ Jeb Bush
Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things.
~ J.M. McDermott, Straggletaggle
If a man couldn't control his beast, it could turn so violent that nothing could restrain it once enraged.
~ Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
~ George Santayana
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
~ Voltaire
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
~ Plutarch
My specter around me night and dayLike a wild beast guards my way.My emanation far withinWeeps incessantly for my sin.
~ William Blake
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
~ William Butler Yeats
Now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
~ William Butler Yeats
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
~ William Butler Yeats
I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.
~ William Golding
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began.
~ William Hazlitt
The beast he had fought, that ravens upon others, slept underneath my chair.
~ William McIlvanney
There's something visceral about a storm in the night, how it tugs at the eaves and rattles the windows like some beast trying to get in.
~ David Healey
Godzilla lovers to this day still wonder precisely what attracts them. Part of the appeal is the surprising sophistication in what seems at first glance to be simple-minded Saturday matinee fare. In the wreckage left in the wake of this awesome beast lies the tattered remains of human hubris, a moral lesson left smoldering in the ruins. As series producer Tomoyuki Tanaka put it, "As long as the arrogance of human beings exists, Godzilla will survive.
~ David Kalat
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called "fools".
~ Bill Shakespeare
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
~ Timothy Spall