Creatures Quotes

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Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. — William Shakespeare
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a… — John Donne
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither… — Albert Einstein
And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine… — Thomas a Kempis
The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man… — Thomas de Quincey
What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put… — James Boswell
[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst… — Barbara Pym
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least… — Charles Caleb Colton
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating… — Clement of Alexandria
The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt… — H. L. Mencken
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of… — Karl Marx
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'... — William Blake
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow… — Thomas Carlyle
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance. — Benjamin Disraeli
The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as… — Clarence Day
Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins;… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished… — James Stewart
We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures. — Dalai Lama
I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to me the more… — Lewis Thomas

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