What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world;… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Our houses are hosts to these creatures which are ultra-tiny (so small they were only first discovered in 1965) which live in… — David Bodanis Copy Share Image
You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We really have dinosaurs today, without any question. You just need the right weather conditions, as I see it, to get huge… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface level of conditioned thinking in every one of us there is a single living spirit. The still small voice… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“You want us to bargain with a lizard?” “They’re not lizards, Father. They’re extraordinary creatures who were here long before any human… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him,… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
All the best, Sydney P.S. "The Red Hurricane" is what I named the car. P.P.S. Just because I like you, it doesn't… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may… — Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Copy Share Image
Detachment from things does not mean setting up a contradiction between 'things' and 'God' as if God were another thing and as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost...… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy…A boy is truth with… — Alan Beck Copy Share Image
Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image