Wild Quotes - page 2

I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild. (Tom Felton)
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. View quote
Axel Munthe
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. View quote
William Hazlitt
A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages. View quote
Tennessee Williams
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret. Oh death in life, the days that are no more. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink. View quote
Ben Jonson
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant and of all tame, a flatterer. View quote
Ben Jonson
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. View quote
Willa Cather
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. (Matthew Arnold)
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells. View quote
Thomas Friedman
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. View quote
William Butler Yeats
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. View quote
Boris Pasternak
Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me 'Pipe a song about a Lamb.' So I piped with merry cheer 'Piper, pipe that song again.' So I piped he wept to hear. View quote
William Blake
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comp. View quote
Heinrich Heine
Dying is a wild night and a new road. View quote
Emily Dickinson
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one It seemed not so wild a dream . . . View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
O Caledonia stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood. View quote
Walter Scott
Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen. View quote
Walter Scott