City Of Beasts Quotes

#1. The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

Daniel Pinkwater

#2. Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

Albert Einstein

#3. We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.

David Zindell

#4. 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

#5. Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve
hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve
not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Joy Williams

#6. Love is the king of the beasts
And when it gets hungry it must kill to eat
Love is the king of the beasts
A lion walking down city streets

Bill Callahan

#7. For heaven's sake, Darling, keep your crusading instinct [for social justice] under control ... It's uncomfortable to live with especially for those of us who haven't got one.

P.D. James

#8. We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter ... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.

James Joyce

#9. I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

Alice Neel

#10. I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.

Kenneth Eade

#11. If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.

Peter Senge

#12. As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land on the banks of the Ohio.

Alexandre Dumas

#13. God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

Rick Warren

#14. Some of our clients have not been saints, but no lawyer can dictate morals to his client.

John Grisham

#15. In any industry, the people with the freshest ideas usually come from outside.

Amish Tripathi

#16. Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

Ernest Dimnet

#17. Having to admit that you are depressed makes one feel less than. Broken. Yes, that's what it is. Broken.

Gillian Marchenko