Creature Quotes

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Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature. — Thomas Carlyle
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. — Thomas Carlyle
I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs… — Juliana Hatfield
There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and… — John Ruskin
... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. — Christopher Marlowe
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. — Robert Breault
Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration. — Sai Baba
Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to wishes and desires,… — Sun Simiao
The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no… — William Wordsworth
Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope. — George Will
We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. — Samuel Johnson
Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his… — Herman Melville
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman. — Euripides
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. — William Godwin
To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman. — Elinor Glyn
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is… — Soren Kierkegaard
When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I… — Chris O'Dowd
The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image. — Leonardo da Vinci
Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie. — Linda Sunshine

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