We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The firefly is an unassuming insect in the daytime. If you didn't know what it was, you'd think it was nothing special.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only one that's appeared in my dreams is the one from Aliens. H.R. Giger's version of that Necronom was almost like… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When anger is not trampling roughshod through our nervous system, it is sitting sullenly in some unspecified internal organ. "She's got a… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or… — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
I like grey, not black and white. Even the bad creatures, you want to give them a moment where you empathise with… — Gareth Edwards Copy Share Image
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too? — John Boorman Copy Share Image
What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language? — John Vaillant 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
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a woman is determined, she will get what she wants because we are very determined creatures. — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable. — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, 'Oh, Julie Adams - 'Creature from… — Julie Adams Copy Share Image
Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
