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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Bertrand Russell

As savage as a bear with a sore head.

Captain Frederick Marryat

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

Savage here, Savage there. He's the whole package. He's a legitimate back.

Grady Bennett

I do feel heartsick that the inequalities, if anything, are worse today than they were when I wrote 'Savage Inequalities,' and that segregation is now back at the point where it was when I published my first book.

Jonathan Kozol

A lot of the most proper-acting people are the most savage in the bedroom!

Busta Rhymes

A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.

Ramsey Clark

I would be surprised. (Savage) just came here and he?s a great guy and a great person. But things happen for a reason and some things you can?t control.

Aaron Shea

It's a savage profit warning for the UK.

Christian Maher

I cannot and don't think I ever will be able to describe what I felt while watching that video. When did I become a piece of meat? How can anything human do the things that they did? They did things not even a savage animal would do.

Jane Doe

We are very happy with our hardware, such as golf clubs and exercise equipment, but competition in clothing is as savage as ever and footwear is competitive as well.

Tom Knight

The first time you meet Coach (Pete) Savage, it is real intimidating.

Bryan Carano

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

James F. Cooper

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

James George Frazer

Brutality is what brings fans to the game. Savagery is what has made boxing great. It has elegant moments and it has savage moments. But it's still a great game. One on one it can be beautiful.

Diego Corrales

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Plutarch

DANGER, n. A savage beast which, when it sleeps, Man girds at and despises, But takes himself away by leaps And bounds when it arises. Ambat Delaso.

Ambrose Bierce

Imagine this fairylike Temple blazing like sunlight among those savage black rocks.

Frederic Edwin Church

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Thomas Harris

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana

This is the gangland mob that threatens to rule us ... this is the mob that will savage our constitution and the very fabric of our society unless we destroy it now before it destroys us.

Sergio Apostol

HATCHET, n. A young axe, known among Indians as a Thomashawk. 'O bury the hatchet, irascible Red, For peace is a blessing,' the White Man said. The Savage concurred, and that weapon interred, With imposing rites, in the White Man's head. John Lukkus.

Ambrose Bierce

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Alain Badiou

American soldiers and their allies are still engaged in armed conflict overseas against an unprincipled, unconventional, and savage foe.

Theodore Olson

[Sep 26 |] Is human nature savage? It's a question that STAR TREK addressed in many ways, ... You'd Do The Same For Me.

Star Trek

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

John Dos Passos

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

Belva Lockwood

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Plato

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

Angus Young

It's a very savage kind of humor, it comes out of a great deal of pain.

Martin Scorsese

I was scheduled to be on with Mike Savage the day he savaged the Catholic Church and made bigoted comments about Latinos.

Bill Donohue

He brings a gust of acrid provincial air to the ancient office. He is an angry young prophet rather than a smooth courtier. His verse is angular, savage, robust and very good.

Philip Howard

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman

Robbie [Savage] quit Wales after being told he was dropped!

John Toshack

It's a savage profit warning for the UK with the number for 2007 likely to shift materially below current expectations. You are probably looking at cuts of between 30 and 50 percent to UK profitability for 2007.

Christian Maher

It's a savage profit warning for the UK, with numbers for 2006/07 likely to shift materially below current expectations. You are probably looking at cuts of between 30 and 50 percent.

Christian Maher

Savage capitalism and globalization finished in the 1990s what dictatorship started in the 1970s. State policy favored big business that sought to seize the local markets.

Ana Maria Shua

Their goaltending wasn't that good. But the last time (Savage) shut us out 3-0.

Stan Butler

For the time being I would characterize this as a savage, bear market rally.

Richard Champion

Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.

Flann O'brien

This isn't just baseball out here. It's life. Coach Savage eats it, drinks it, sleeps it. And that's what is so great about being a part of this.

Bryan Carano

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

Erwin Rommel

In a very savage way.

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