Creature Quotes

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So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always… — W S Merwin
It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he… — Jo Nesbo
Tam: What beggâ€™st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: â€™Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue… — William Shakespeare
It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness. — Carl Sagan
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.… — Andrew Murray
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of… — C.S. Lewis
The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creatorâ€”to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the… — C.S. Lewis
Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful… — Jeannette Walls
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction… — Glen Duncan
You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the… — Philippa Gregory
He shouldn't have said that," repeated Adrian, eerily serious. He leaned his face toward mine. "I don't care if he's not the emotional type or… — Richelle Mead
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like… — John Keats
(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop. — James Joyce
You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't… — Terry Pratchett
The most dangerous and wonderful creature alive is the human. — Maggie Stiefvater
Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf. — Charlaine Harris
...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature… — Libba Bray
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must… — Charles Darwin
Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the… — Christopher Isherwood
Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the… — Eoin Colfer

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