Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1569 authors
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Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of…
— Carlo M. Cipolla
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It is humanity's destiny to explore the universe. When we start thinking and working on that cosmic level, we will transcend our parochial differences and…
— Story Musgrave
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I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw…
— Basil W. Maturin
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There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty…
— Edward Topsell
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If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between…
— Story Musgrave
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The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning…
— Grey Owl
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Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character…
— Al-Jahiz
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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable…
— Ralph Cudworth
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Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands…
— Mary Alice
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People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of…
— Mary Alice
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Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry themselves…
— Gerrard Winstanley
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TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.
— Charles Inglis
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The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the…
— Myrtle Reed
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We declare, assert, define and pronounce to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every creature altogether necessary for salvation… I have the authority…
— Pope Boniface VIII
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It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves…
— C.S. Lewis
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The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.
— Laozi
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The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come up, from scratch,…
— Paul Lockhart
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You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
— Achy Obejas
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I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature…
— Karel Capek
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