Creatures Quotes

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...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered… — Jane Goodall
Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Onlyâ€”I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a maiden in a… — Catherynne M. Valente
Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all… — Howard Zinn
She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those… — Guy de Maupassant
Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean… — Laura Anne Gilman
Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of… — John Milton
Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which… — Marcel Proust
We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
This one isnâ€™t just any old horse. Thereâ€™s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men… — Michael Morpurgo
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence. — Zadie Smith
The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star,… — Carl Sagan
Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty… — E L Doctorow
I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are! — Nnedi Okorafor
It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you… — Cassandra Clare
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ...… — William S. Burroughs
Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and… — Richard Siken
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens… — C.S. Lewis

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