“But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Of the two smartest creatures on the earth, man and the dolphin, each thought they were smarter than the other. Man thought… — Gershon Legman Copy Share Image
You're always being judged. No matter what you do, it's not the right thing. If you didn't become successful, then you'd be… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page, or in my head. I hear it… — Kelly Masterson Copy Share Image
Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Today we celebrate Earth Day. I exhort everyone to see the world through the eyes of God the Creator: the earth is… — Pope Francis 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
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
We all have weak moments, moments where we lose faith, but it's our flaws, our weaknesses that make us human. Science now… — Sarah Connor Copy Share Image
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
SpongeBob is a good role model as far as imaginary creatures go. He works hard and his emotional highs are very high,… — Tom Kenny Copy Share Image
At this time I choseas friends two little girls of my own age; but how shallow are the hearts of creatures! Oneof… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A long-dead angel who thought to own me,” was his enigmatic answer, the silver in his eyes almost liquid. “I tore out… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We're [humans] running great risks of doing things that will not be good for us. The cost can be very high indeed… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Heaven and happiness do not exist. That is your parents’ way to justify the crime of having brought you into this world.… — Fernando Vallejo Copy Share Image
I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing],… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
![“We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after the heavens; and yet the heavens aren't full in us. So this wonderful, restless, eternal longing in us has us always on a quest.” quote by John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e8d/john-o-donohue-1919_creatures_we-humans-are-the-only-creatures-who-are_274213.jpg)
![“We're [humans] running great risks of doing things that will not be good for us. The cost can be very high indeed if we reach the point where we can't adapt to our own increasingly rapid adaptations. We run the risk of early extinction. So this certainly isn't a triumphalist story, but it is…” quote by Robert Neelly Bellah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5d8/robert-neelly-bellah-25104_adaptation_we-re-humans-running-great-risks-of-doin_1819566.jpg)
![“I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing], and while I keep mine within due bounds and limits, nobody, I flatter myself, would wish to deprive me of the poor animal: to be sure, he is not formed for labour, and is rather lame…” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d52/fanny-burney-7403_animal_i-never-pretend-to-be-so-superior-a-bein_485407.jpg)
