However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their… — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
I think that nonexistent mythological creature just broke some of your toes," Jack said. Oh, shut up," said Charles — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All the creatures living on Earth behave more or less the same way! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals,… — Bridget of Sweden Copy Share Image
People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures.… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I have such disdain for anybody who gets joy out of blowing the stuffing out of a little woodland creature, that I… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
