Creature Quotes
1170 quotes by 835 authors
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The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine…
— Georges Cuvier
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Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.
— Arthur W. Pink
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A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he…
— Charles Spurgeon
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When God saves a man, He is regenerating his heart, turns him into a new creature, and the evidence is this ... he will live…
— Paul Washer
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Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys…
— Christopher Marlowe
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There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material…
— C.S. Lewis
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What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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When Allah created the horse, he said to the wind, I will that a creature proceed from thee. Condense thyself.And the wind condensed itself, and…
— Marguerite Henry
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My life has become about trying to find effective ways to be as responsible with the choices I make - in food, clothing and everything…
— Alicia Silverstone
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Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for…
— Matt Groening
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"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any…
— John Ruskin
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If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it…
— Alexander Hamilton
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They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in…
— Plutarch
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort…
— Victor Hugo
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We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others…
— Linda Blair
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Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.
— Solanus Casey
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Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the…
— John Keats
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It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
— John Brown
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