Creatures Quotes · Page 50

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at…

— Albert Schweitzer

... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

— Christopher Marlowe

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.

— John Hodgman

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the…

— Howard Moskowitz

When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change…

— Brian May

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

— Abraham Lincoln

Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach…

— Suzanne Collins

When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment,…

— Sam Harris

It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image…

— Elbert Hubbard

The holiest of Christians, and those who understand best the gospel of Christ, find in themselves a constant inclination to look to…

— Charles Spurgeon

“There are some woodland creatures that, no matter how many bread crumbs you leave out for them ... no matter how patiently…

— Meg Cabot

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of…

— James Lee Burke

We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of…

— Gary Paul Nabhan

The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters…

— Ayn Rand

Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in…

— Eric Hoffer

I knew it. You’re an alien,” said her former best friend, the pale, bespectacled creature with the spectacular cleavage. “Yes, I’m an…

— Libba Bray

Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into…

— Anonymous

The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which…

— Winona LaDuke

You can't see any movie nowadays really without it having some sort of CGI treatment, albeit whether it's a creature or an…

— Brendan Fraser

My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon…

— Meister Eckhart

Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss…

— David Rakoff

God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly…

— Elisabeth Elliot

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

— C. S. Lewis

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

— Anonymous

Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

— Oscar Wilde

Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and…

— Matthew Arnold

We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.

— Nelly Mazloum

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or…

— John Muir

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

— Achy Obejas

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves

— Smokey Robinson

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying…

— Saint Augustine

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

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

— Marina Tsvetaeva

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.

— Kristin Cashore

The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'

— William Wordsworth