I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
“Some creatures are just meant to be left alone. They can’t be held on to, even if we love them more than… — Amy Greene Copy Share Image
Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word… — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Copy Share Image
Human nature means battling constantly between being completely self-absorbed and trying to be a communal creature. Nature makes you a communal creature.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I think we must ask ourselves if this is really what we want to do to God's creation, to drive it to… — Stuart L. Pimm Copy Share Image
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book like any other. It makes a claim that God spoke and speaks through its message. It… — Darrell Bock Copy Share Image
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having… — Athanasius of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. — John Brown Copy Share Image
The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the… — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook Copy Share Image
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in... — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image