Quotes about beast

A collection of quotes on the topic of beast.

Quotes about beast

“It reminded him of the man who had a poor old lean, bony, spavined horse, with swelled legs. He was asked what he was going to do with such a miserable beast, the poor creature would die. 'Do?' said he. 'I'm going to fat him up; don't you see that I have got him seal fat as high as the knees?'”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Well, they've got the Union dissolved up to the ankle, but no farther!
1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

“Tuesday, January 13, 1835: We made the land at Point Conception... the point of Santa Barbara, to which we were bound, lying about fifty miles to the southeast of this point, we continued sailing down the coast during the day and the following night, and on the next morning.

On the whole coast of California there was not a lighthouse, a beacon, or a buoy, and the charts were made up from old and disconnected surveys by British, Russian, and Mexican voyagers. Birds of prey and passage swooped and dived about us, wild beasts ranged through the oak groves... herds of deer came to the water's edge.”

Richard Henry Dana Jr. book Two Years Before the Mast

Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

Lying, Bird, Water, Night

“No one should be forced to take the vaccine. The globalists are practicing for the Mark of the Beast.”

Wendy Rogers (politician) (1954) American politician

26 July 2021 https://twitter.com/wendyrogersaz/status/1419773739693137927

“I may be from the east but I am not a beast.”

Donald Tusk (1957) Polish politician, current President of the European Council

'Ireland first,' says Tusk after Varadkar meeting https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-43333274 BBC News (8 March 2018)

“I denounced the body and the mind. Still, that doesn't mean I should refrain from feeding the beast.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The brain is the kind of beast you can't stop. Even after the soul leaves the body, what we call death, the brain can still function for a few seconds or even a few minutes.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Now there was sophistry. A mage was a perilous beast, but a mage who was also a logician and a theologian was deadly enough to outface the devil himself.”

Judith Tarr (1955) American fantasy writer, historian

Source: Ars Magica (1989), Chapter 19 (p. 234)

“I felt an unmanly pity for the beasts we slew, for I fear I don’t really have the killer instinct. I don’t have the starving instinct either, though, and so I fired away.”

Robert Silverberg book The Gate of Worlds

Source: The Gate of Worlds (1967), Chapter 9 “To the Western Sea” (p. 158)

“Here was a beast for whom there could be no predator. What better definition of God is there than that?”

Lucius Shepard (1947–2014) writer

Source: Short fiction, Señor Volto (2003), p. 349

“If there must be a god in the house, must be,
Saying things in the room and on the stair,

Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,
Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost

Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out
His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.

He must be incapable of speaking, closed,
As those are: as light, for all its motion, is;

As color, even the closest to us, is;
As shapes, though they portend us, are.

It is the human that is the alien,
The human that has no cousin in the moon.

It is the human that demands his speech
From beasts or from the incommunicable mass.

If there must be a god in the house, let him be one
That will not hear us when we speak: a coolness

A vermillioned nothingness, any stick of the mass
Of which we are too distantly a part.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

"Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit"
Transport to Summer (1947)

God, Color, Star, Light