Creature Quotes

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BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it… — Ambrose Bierce
Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something a little different… — C.S. Lewis
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological… — Rachel Carson
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must… — Krista Tippett
The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can… — Gene Roddenberry
There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like… — Mark Lawrence
Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you… — Ibn Arabi
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is amazing to me how deeply into the popular culture the creature has become. There are zombie walks in every major city. I live… — George A. Romero
He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore… — Marcus Aurelius
My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of… — C.S. Lewis
It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human… — James Anthony Froude
No creature smarts so little as a fool. — Alexander Pope
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance… — Alfred North Whitehead
It's just a natural part of being a social creature and being a human being. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a… — Stephen Jay Gould
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. — Martha Graham

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