Creatures Quotes · Page 133

I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out…

— Eva Mendes

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the…

— Christina Baldwin

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

— Anonymous

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

— George Eliot

To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other…

— D. H. Lawrence

I think as creatures we're incredibly sociable, and I do think comedy brings us all together.

— Rosie Jones

I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the…

— Lierre Keith

And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in…

— Robin Wasserman

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

— Walker Percy

In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by…

— Ernest Becker

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending…

— Jean Cocteau

How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some…

— Robert Jastrow

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto…

— Mahathir Mohamad

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God…

— C. S. Lewis

All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is…

— Brian Jacques

“Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage…

— Anonymous

Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get…

— Patrick Dempsey

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the…

— Richard John Neuhaus

To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads…

— Edward Albee

The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the…

— Charlaine Harris