Creatures Quotes

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His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as… — Jonathan Maberry
Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational. — John Milton
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche
For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights. — Darren Shan
I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources. — Norman Foster
Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more… — Chris Hardwick
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end… — W. Somerset Maugham
Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but… — Leo Tolstoy
Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own… — Mary Antin
To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature? — Anne Rice
Remember always, he said, that nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind… — Anne Rice
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other. — John Smith
To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there.… — Cary Fowler
Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts… — Niccolo Machiavelli
There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again immediately. But as… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent… — Theodor Fontane
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried. — Alain de Botton
When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but… — Leo Tolstoy

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