The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
When I shall be dead, the principles of which I am composed will still perform their part in the universe, and will… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The cool thing about my character was that it's not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind.… — Laura Anne Gilman Copy Share Image
Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is!… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“I am surely a creature. For what human has two hearts? But I have two hearts— one is always broken; the other… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
