Creatures Quotes

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"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any… — John Ruskin
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it… — Alexander Hamilton
Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Man and cats are unworthy creatures. — Marie Bashkirtseff
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! — W. S. Gilbert
They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in… — Plutarch
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort… — Victor Hugo
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their… — Vladimir Nabokov
We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others… — Linda Blair
Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature. — Solanus Casey
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the… — John Keats
Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal… — Gerard De Nerval
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. — John Brown
Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas in their heads,… — Dan Jenkins
The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we… — C.S. Lewis
Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly… — Ludwig Bemelmans
At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy.… — Imelda Staunton
I begin to love this creature, and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie. — Mary Wollstonecraft
The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths… — Isaac Asimov

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