Creatures Quotes · Page 83

The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with…

— Blaise Pascal

This king governs without decapitation or corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances. Even in cases…

— Faxian

The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each…

— Charles Babbage

I'm not worthy of that," I said. I might be human now, but I understand how powerful a heavenly creature Carter was.…

— Richelle Mead

I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and…

— Meister Eckhart

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

— Bayard Taylor

You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out…

— Tarsem Singh

Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to…

— Thomas Sowell

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

— C. S. Lewis

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A wild appreciation of men and women . . . who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance. . . . The…

— Jessa Crispin

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

— Albert Schweitzer

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

— Paul McCartney

My dogs, the only creatures on the planet marked by my singular nurturing imprint, have all turned out to be rude and…

— Merrill Markoe

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made…

— Gillian Flynn

But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves…

— Alexander Pushkin

Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconscious, impersonal, material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be…

— Robert Breault

Can I ask you a question? You know with vampires and werewolves and goblins and things, is there any mythological creature that…

— Derek Landy

I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out…

— Eva Mendes

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the…

— Christina Baldwin

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

— Anonymous

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

— George Eliot

To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other…

— D. H. Lawrence

I think as creatures we're incredibly sociable, and I do think comedy brings us all together.

— Rosie Jones

I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the…

— Lierre Keith

And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in…

— Robin Wasserman

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

— Walker Percy

In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by…

— Ernest Becker

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending…

— Jean Cocteau

How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some…

— Robert Jastrow

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto…

— Mahathir Mohamad

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God…

— C. S. Lewis

All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is…

— Brian Jacques

“Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage…

— Anonymous

Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton