Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1578 authors
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Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig…
— Matthew Scully
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Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without…
— Matthew Scully
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Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will…
— Matthew Scully
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To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind…
— Hakim Bey
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We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.
— Diane Ackerman
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All God's creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God's creatures.
— Abdul Kalam
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The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic…
— Rebecca Solnit
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The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat,…
— H R Giger
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What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged creature…
— Susan Wiggs
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Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
— Augustus Hare
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I love the creation of these things—I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.
— Guillermo del Toro
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When you were a kid and the circus came to town it was awesome to see these little creatures, but these things go out of…
— Zach Braff
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When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being who knows him,…
— Henry Corbin
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I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.
— Arthur Honegger
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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The…
— Edward Dahlberg
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We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human…
— William Barrett
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Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful…
— John Jewel
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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall…
— Henry Mayhew
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Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.
— Linus Torvalds
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