Creatures Quotes · Page 18

It is because of their tranquil thoughts That creatures go to prosperity.

— Gautama Buddha

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

— Lisa Kleypas

“we fat all creatures else to 25 fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots:”

— William Shakespeare

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

— Charles Buxton

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

— Charles Darwin

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

— Carl Sagan

A man becomes the creature of his uniform.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

— Anonymous

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable…

— Sri Aurobindo

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

— Bryan Davis

Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was…

— Frank Beddor

The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to]…

— Hu Shih

Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

— Homer

I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.

— Ursula Goodenough

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns…

— Gloria Vanderbilt

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be…

— Ambrose Bierce

Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a…

— David Quammen

We want to think of ourselves as truly special creatures that are unique in the universe and, well, we are. And we…

— Sylvia Earle

Do nothing through human respect and, when it assails you, say: I shall do neither more nor less for the eyes of…

— Margaret Mary Alacoque

So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call…

— Keanu Reeves

Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you…

— Andre Gide

Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he…

— Leo Tolstoy

Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according…

— Joseph Addison

If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our…

— Edwin A. Abbott

“At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able to answer that…

— Diane Ackerman

A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever…

— Rachilde

Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable,…

— Louise J. Kaplan

...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's…

— Libba Bray

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

— J. M. Coetzee

We are the yearning creatures of this planet.

— Robert Olen Butler

“Gods tender mercies are over all His creatures.”

— Psalm 145 9

We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.

— Desmond Tutu

I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.

— Mila Kunis

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

— Hermann Hesse

I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.

— William Cowper

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

— Anonymous