Axel Munthe Quotes

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

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• Growing up, my favorite pass-rusher was Julius Peppers. He was just a beast.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• You can't go into the cage and not love it, and you can't go in there unprepared. You have to prepare.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Prepare
  • Cage
  • Unprepared

• When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • American
  • Song
  • Honest

• Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Words
  • Burden
  • Lit

• Yes I’m a beast and I feast when I conquer!

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Beast
  • Conquer

• I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!

  

  Donald Glover
  • Empty
  • Glasses
  • Sitting

• Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through these bars. . . ." "You'd get arrested all over again." "Well, you're just that tempting. Jailbait." He kissed her fingers, which made her shiver all over; his lips lingered warm on her skin, reminding her of what it felt like to be alone with him, in that timeless...

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Long
  • Alone
  • Moment

• One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • People
  • Different
  • Trouble

• I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Heart
  • Band
  • Cage

• If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Bars
  • Raises
  • Raising The Bar

• I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Business
  • Difficult
  • Celebrity

• We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Children
  • Lost

• You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Sun
  • Cage
  • Eagle

• A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Bird
  • Cage

• I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

  

  George Clooney
  • Guy
  • Looks
  • Said

• The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

  

  Aristotle
  • God
  • Beast
  • Essentially

• Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Men
  • Food
  • Beast

• Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

  

  Saskya Pandita
  • Silence
  • Birds
  • Cage

• Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

  

  Plato
  • Quality
  • Poverty
  • Workman

• Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • Enemy
  • Wise

• When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.

  

  Homer
  • Death
  • Fight
  • Confusion

• The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Beast
  • Bars
  • Cage