Creatures Quotes · Page 69

If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest,…

— Luther Burbank

The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like…

— Erica Jong

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will…

— John Locke

Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of…

— C. S. Lewis

The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But…

— Thomas Aquinas

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

— Arthur Honegger

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can…

— Solon

I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment…

— Jane Goodall

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we…

— J. G. Holland

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer…

— George Bernard Shaw

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

— Sydney Smith

Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding…

— Ludwig Bemelmans

Every soul on earth is equally precious, even those of plants and animals. If you see love in one area and not…

— Suzy Kassem

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Harriet Jones: Did you notice when they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't just smell like a fart, if you'll…

— Russell T Davies

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look…

— Imelda Staunton

Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like…

— Alden Ehrenreich

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

— Oscar Wilde

I don't like weak women and I don't find it interesting to play them. I'm inspired by them, when I see them…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures…

— Henry Adams

I hunt because I love the entire process: the preparations, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woodslore against…

— Fred Bear

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

— Joy Adamson

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after…

— Wilfrid Laurier

Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous…

— Margaret Halsey

“We are creatures of rage and madness and bitter tears and we knew that from the start. Our end was disaster and…

— Thomas Curtis Clark

I'd never taken to four foot creatures who had the uncanny ability to point out all my flaws in thirty second flat.…

— Darynda Jones

And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to…

— Helen Oyeyemi

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his…

— Jules Verne

I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power,…

— Paulo Coelho

Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

— Lewis Thomas

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

— Charles Lamb

What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

— Jay Michaelson

One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring clean... It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came…

— Ted Hughes

Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

— Stevie Nicks

Mermaids are just the most whimsical, mystical creatures of all time.

— Jazz Jennings

I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.

— Renee Fleming

We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

The eternal spring is hidden in this living bread for our life's sake, although it is night. It is here calling out…

— John of the Cross

Leo knew next to nothing about governesses, save for the drab creatures in novels, who tended to fall in love with the…

— Lisa Kleypas