Creature Quotes
1170 quotes by 835 authors
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Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid…
— Freya Stark
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Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything you’ve experienced, everything you know, you think you know and…
— Jo Nesbo
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The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment,…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.
— Hildegard of Bingen
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The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that…
— Rudolf Otto
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Man is the creature of circumstances.
— Robert Owen
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What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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The physical union of a man and a woman, in essence, is a supernatural act, a reminiscence of paradise, the most beautiful of all the…
— Samael Aun Weor
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Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear…
— Edith Stein
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It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one…
— William Alexander Percy
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The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.
— Jack Hanna
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Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow…
— Alfie Kohn
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
— G. Stanley Hall
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The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us
— Alain de Lille
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Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of…
— Carlo M. Cipolla
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There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty…
— Edward Topsell
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We declare, assert, define and pronounce to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every creature altogether necessary for salvation… I have the authority…
— Pope Boniface VIII
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You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch…
— Michael Ondaatje
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I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature…
— Karel Capek
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