The Beast Quotes

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

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

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.

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

Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.

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

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

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

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

No beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

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

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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.

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.

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

Writing is the beast unto itself.

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.

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

Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

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

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

Bread Street Kitchen is a big operation, a unique beast, and it needs bedding in.

Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.

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

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and why do you seek me?

I didn't love stickers and unicorns and stuff, but just if I were to ride on the back of a beast to work, I want it to be a frickin' unicorn.