Creature Quotes
1170 quotes by 829 authors
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We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule;…
— Horace Walpole
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The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide…
— Bryan Procter
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A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as…
— Guru Nanak
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The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist…
— Eric Maisel
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A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not…
— Pierre Alechinsky
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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
— Richard Steele
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If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy…
— Pythagoras
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A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature…
— Pythagoras
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Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live…
— Matthew Arnold
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The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one…
— Thomas Aquinas
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A man becomes the creature of his uniform.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.
— Emily Dickinson
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
— Bayard Taylor
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of…
— Saint Basil
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