Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1536 authors
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Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)
— George R. R. Martin
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I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but…
— Anne Bronte
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I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love…
— Margaret Atwood
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Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.
— Bill Bryson
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I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle…
— Wendell Berry
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I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived…
— Francesca Lia Block
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And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew…
— Helen Oyeyemi
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With a strange half-mocking tone, Aislinn said, "It's not just guys like those today. Even the pretty ones can be awful. Don't trust them just…
— Melissa Marr
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the…
— Alan Bennett
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Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of…
— William Shakespeare
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I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has…
— Walter Moers
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What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature
— Isaac Marion
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And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward…
— Martin Heidegger
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The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we…
— R C Sproul
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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a…
— Emile Zola
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I'm not worthy of that," I said. I might be human now, but I understand how powerful a heavenly creature Carter was. "I don't deserve…
— Richelle Mead
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But it's daylight," she said at last. "Vampires can't go out in the sun, everyone knows that!" Bones chuckled. "Right And we shrink back from…
— Jeaniene Frost
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But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.
— Ann Aguirre
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She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only…
— Carl Sagan
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Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to…
— Sue Grafton
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