Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties;… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I always loved those little creatures [hummingbird], always feel blessed when they appear nearby. There's a magical quality to them. I finally… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe. — Mamphela Ramphele Copy Share Image
Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try… — Colin Tudge Copy Share Image
...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world. — Marguerite de Navarre Copy Share Image
“At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able to answer that… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals… — Plato Copy Share Image
“To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that… — John Noble Wilford Copy Share Image
Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew… — George Bird Evans Copy Share Image
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image