Creature Quotes

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You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life,… — Margo Lanagan
People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of him. But they… — Olivier Clement
What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language? — John Vaillant
To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that… — Richard Adams
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -… — Friedrich Nietzsche
No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through… — George Orwell
The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will. — John Marshall
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it… — Immanuel Kant
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it — Finley Peter Dunne
One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty… — Mohsin Hamid
Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated,… — Carl Jung
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a… — John Stuart Mill
This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial… — Karl Marx
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done. — Sappho
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful… — Doris Humphrey
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a… — Alice Walker
This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature… — Holly Lisle
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not… — Richard Baxter
God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved.Â If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why… — Richard Sibbes

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