Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they… — John Moulder Wilson Copy Share Image
It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The difference to me is not between the believers on one hand and the nonbelievers on the other hand. It's between people… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?" "Yeah, I guess so,” I said, But it’s not true.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Maybe there is a single spot, just one, where living organisms are holed up. Maybe so, but if so this would be… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so… — Thomas Mellon Copy Share Image
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
