Creature Quotes
1170 quotes by 829 authors
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I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man,…
— Albert Camus
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What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will…
— Tom Wolfe
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I will not have a sea creature destroyed, if I can help it. And I can help it.
— Rick Riordan
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Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.
— Cesar Millan
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The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line,…
— Samuel Beckett
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Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that…
— Muriel Barbery
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After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.
— Sebastian Barry
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Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.
— Janette Rallison
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He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but…
— Michael Ende
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Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
— Jane Austen
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At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them,…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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All the best, Sydney P.S. "The Red Hurricane" is what I named the car. P.P.S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still…
— Richelle Mead
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Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
— Khaled Hosseini
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she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist."…
— Jodi Picoult
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To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere,…
— Hermann Hesse
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We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and…
— R A Salvatore
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A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have…
— Rachilde
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What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first…
— Stephen King
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