The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.
There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.
My dream mixed-tag match has always been against the 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth.
The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
For what we do training, as a fighter, you have to be able to flip that switch where you turn into that savage, that guy that's prepared to go to war.
Working with Dominic Savage was an amazing experience. You don't have a full script to follow so you're more or less improvising and he tells you what he wants out of the scene.
It was so freeing to branch out and work with people like Josh Dun of 21 Pilots who played on 'Savage' and 'Almost Had Me.'
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.
My inspirations were 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.
Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.
I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].
If I had one word to describe how I feel at never having to work with co-host Adam Savage again it'd be relief.
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.
Savage bears keep at peace with one another.
[Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
The future has both gritty and savage and clean and 'techno-hip.' I think it's a very realistic point of view.
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.
By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.
A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.
That tuft of jungle feathers,
That animal eye,
Is just what you say. That savage of fire,
That seed,
Have it your way. The world is ugly,
And the people are sad.
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind).
[Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]
The toughest opponent for me would have been Randy Savage, the Macho Man, because his intensity paralleled mine.
All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.
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.
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.
I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
I have never, ever met a performer that was a stickler to critical moments and moves as they fit. Savage was a perfectionist.
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
When I was growing up, I was a big Ultimate Warrior fan; I liked Macho Man Randy Savage and a lot of other bad dudes.
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.
Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.
The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.
I know one thing, after the match with Savage at Wrestlemania III, I was gassed. I went back to the locker room and fell on the floor.
Die Antwoord will be presented to the world as a wild and savage rap crew from the deep, dark depths of Africa.
I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.
Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.
He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.
The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.
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