Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1578 authors
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
— J. J. Abrams
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal…
— Francis of Assisi
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
— Mary Astell
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal…
— David Attenborough
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature…
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a…
— David Attenborough
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you…
— Marcus Aurelius
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God's first creature, which was light.
— Francis Bacon
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping,…
— Abigail Adams
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
— Honore de Balzac
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Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.
— Brigitte Bardot
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I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
— Drew Barrymore
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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of…
— Bruce Barton
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace,…
— Cecil Beaton
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter…
— Joseph Addison
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth,…
— Joseph Addison
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of…
— Jeremy Bentham
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
— Henri Bergson
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