#beast

This aye night, this aye night; Every night and all; Fire and fleet and candlelight; And Christ receive thy soul ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#hunter #inspirational #richard #inspirational

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

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confident #determination #dragon #dragons

A Quarkbeast is a small hyena-shaped creature that is covered in leathery scales and often described as: 'One tenth Labrador, six-tenths velociraptor and three-tenths kitchen food blender. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#jasper #jasper-fforde #quarkbeast #the-song-of-the-quarkbeast #food

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

— Roger Zelazny

#constantly #enjoy #i #i think #relatives

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

#being #being used #beings #cannot #god

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

#beasts #big #big surprise #books #end

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#civilization #guided #human #instinct #longer

Writing is the beast unto itself. ↗

— Omar Epps

#itself #unto #writing

Since you are so kind as to think of me, be so kind as to bring me a rose, for as none grow hereabouts, they are a kind of rarity. ↗

— Jeanne Marie Beaumont

#beauty

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#beastly #better #business #even #exist