There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time,… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the… — Nick Dear Copy Share Image
What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of… — Tasha Tudor Copy Share Image
Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I… — Helen and Scott Nearing Copy Share Image
These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory,… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it… — George Wither Copy Share Image
He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men… — Brom Copy Share Image
What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Oil is dead, on its way to extinction. As a group of citizens we must speak up and act towards ending fracking.… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Vengeous scowled. 'As you can see,' he said, 'you are vastly outnumbered.' I usually am.' Your situation has become quite untenable.' It… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors… — Bea Arthur Copy Share Image
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by… — H. Jay Dinshah Copy Share Image
