We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ...… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“We startled some strange, long-necked shaggy creatures that had been grazing in the field, and I swear one of them spit at… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“This land was mountainous, stormy and rough. It was called the Dells. Variations of the animals Larch had known in Monsea lived… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The NIGHT WORLD isn't a place.It's all around us.The creatures of the night world are beautiful and deadly and irresisible to humans.Your… — L.J Smith Copy Share Image
Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch.… — Richard Huelsenbeck Copy Share Image
Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The Giant Ocean Tank, with its 52 large viewing windows, is the main attraction here. Myrtle, a giant green sea turtle, is… — John Grant Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures,… — George R. Stewart Copy Share Image
Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If people knew how badly animals were treated in today's factory farms, if people knew how completely confined and immobilized these creatures… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits:… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
![“We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the…” quote by Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/002/sam-keen-4929_airborne_we-all-yearn-to-fly-we-are-creatures-of_890048.jpg)
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![“He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating an image of them here on earth]. Nor is there at all any composite thing or creature endowed with sensation [made by God here on earth] like those in heaven. But…” quote by Clement of Alexandria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7f0/clement-of-alexandria-12861_composites_he-who-prohibited-the-making-of-a-graven_1254264.jpg)
