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It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy. Lucy Alibar

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Plotinus

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Desmond Tutu

A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage.

David Bryan

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Doris Day

All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows.

Michael Ende

Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

Ted Danson

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Thomas Hobbes

For 'Beasts,' I really wanted my character to be this sort of mushy, muscleless Muppet.

Katherine Waterston

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

Jane Welsh Carlyle

When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.

Eddie Redmayne

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

Tanith Lee

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Voltaire

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Mahatma Gandhi

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

John Muir

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

Ovid

It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy.

Lucy Alibar

Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.

Jane Fonda

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Confucius

A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

Jack Hanna

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

Roger Zelazny

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Jules Renard

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

Jules Verne

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Edmund Leach

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

Max Lerner

I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Ignatius of Antioch

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

Chief Seattle

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

Alfred Noyes

There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

Ted Knight

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

Daniel Boone

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Saint Augustine

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

Charles Kingsley

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

Brigitte Bardot

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

Willard Gaylin

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

Jeffery Deaver

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

Heywood Broun

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

Thomas Clarkson