Creatures Quotes

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It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness. — Carl Sagan
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.… — Andrew Murray
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of… — C.S. Lewis
Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you donâ€™t know how you got from one to the next. — Franny Billingsley
A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a moment of breathlessness,… — Madeleine L'Engle
The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creatorâ€”to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the… — C.S. Lewis
God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down. — N. T. Wright
Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful… — Jeannette Walls
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction… — Glen Duncan
You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the… — Philippa Gregory
His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely beautiful head. The… — Walter Farley
It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should… — Catherynne M. Valente
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader… — Ursula K. Le Guin
He shouldn't have said that," repeated Adrian, eerily serious. He leaned his face toward mine. "I don't care if he's not the emotional type or… — Richelle Mead
We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a… — Pascal Mercier
Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like… — John Keats
(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop. — James Joyce
You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't… — Terry Pratchett
It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.â€ â€œThat you speak… — Seth Grahame-Smith

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