But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found… — Erik Fosnes Hansen Copy Share Image
We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures. However, human sexuality… — Jennifer Morse Copy Share Image
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If God so precisely and carefully and lovingly and amazingly constructed a mind-boggling habitat for his creatures, then it would be natural… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
God wants to be praised for nourishing and cherishing, for He cherishes all creatures. He is not only the Creator, but He… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
