Creatures Quotes

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One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures… — John Green
Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures with… — Alexander McCall Smith
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the… — Marilynne Robinson
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. — John Banville
You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures… — T. Harv Eker
Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense… — Atul Gawande
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness… — Sam Harris
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner… — A. S. Byatt
Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that… — Thomas Jefferson
Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Know Me to be the eternal seed of all creatures. I am the intelligence of the intelligent, and the brilliance of the brilliant. — Bhagavad Gita
Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will. — Alexander MacLaren
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison
The Supreme Lord said: Fearlessness, purity of heart, perseverance in the yoga of knowledge, charity, sense restraint, sacrifice, study of the scriptures, austerity, honesty; Nonviolence,… — Bhagavad Gita
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or… — F Scott Fitzgerald
Nick, on the Buchanans: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money… — F Scott Fitzgerald
The almighty and everywhere present power of God; whereby, as it were by his hand, he upholds and governs heaven, earth, and all creatures; so… — Michael Pollan
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of… — Albert Einstein
If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord… — C.S. Lewis
As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it… — Sorin Cerin

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