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
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I’m a big fan of parrots - I think they’re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
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
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
“Teafortwo was a wyrman. Barrel-chested creatures like squat birds, with thick arms like a human dwarf’s below those ugly, functional wings, the… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Kate, perhaps you need to explain to your significant other that he is in no position to give me orders. Last time… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said,… — Andrew Wilson 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
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
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
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
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
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour… — Bong Joon-ho Copy Share Image
To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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