I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt.… — John Green Copy Share Image
The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
“Fear is the bane of all creatures and bubbles inside all forming a rock of solidifying darkness, sucking all will power to… — Isabella Irini Poretsis Copy Share Image
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I shall be dead, the principles of which I am composed will still perform their part in the universe, and will… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too… — Kim Paffenroth Copy Share Image
People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Fairies with gossamer wings, Bring forth beauty, grace and joyful things. Fairies of the earth are caretakers of our soil, water and… — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
What should happen is a little voice in your head, like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, will go 'But Russell, that bird, that's… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Even if evolution were true, it wouldn't disprove God. God has performed more spectacular feats than evolution. It's not even a daunting… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but youre more likely to… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I love weird science. I learned in an article in 'National Geographic' that there are trillions of bacteria in our guts that… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“Never ‘it,’ never ‘it,’ ” Marya chided. “None of God’s creatures is an ‘it,’ even if they’re not a boy or a… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
