Creature Quotes
1170 quotes by 835 authors
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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
— Victor Hugo
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A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation
— Frank Herbert
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It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the…
— Boris Johnson
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Beauty itself soon fades, and when a woman has beauty and nothing else, well, it's like putting all the goods in the shop window, isn't…
— Henry Arthur Jones
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When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking…
— John Flavel
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If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ.
— Kay Arthur
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What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an…
— Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
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A disciple once complained, "You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us." The master replied, "How would you like it if…
— Thomas a Kempis
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The werewolf is neither man nor wolf, but a satanic creature with the worst qualities of both.
— Warner Oland
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The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had…
— Peggy Noonan
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Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be…
— Pope Boniface VIII
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It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former…
— Emma Goldman
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Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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When there is a storm in your life, it is not the time to build. No creature on earth tries to build during a storm.…
— Pat McBride
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The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound,…
— Helen Weston
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Every creature and plant is part of her (mother nature's) amazing interconnected garden... The whole world is a garden.
— Costa Georgiadis
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If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function…
— Kathleen Tessaro
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Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a room alone –…
— Les Standiford
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