Creatures Quotes

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Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a… — L. Neil Smith
Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing… — Friedrich Engels
If Harvey [Milk] had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and… — Dustin Lance Black
Women are such contrary creatures when it comes to sex. You parade around like scantily clad vixens but blush when you're caught staring at the… — Katie MacAlister
The tendency in the media is to portray everyone in the film industry as sex-starved creatures. Please spare us. — Madhuri Dixit
I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But, generally, they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When they get big,… — Kim Deal
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us. — Jerome Bruner
I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt… — Peter F. Hamilton
Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be. — Edna O'Brien
Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice.… — Thomas Ken
Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason,… — Robert Greene
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice… — C.S. Lewis
God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of… — C.S. Lewis
Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man… — John Fowles
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians… — Frans de Waal
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want… — Patricia Piccinini
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. — Thomas Carlyle
Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man;… — William Henry Hudson
You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way. — Mark Lynas

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