Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1536 authors
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To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own quality of life.…
— Matthew Scully
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Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live in friendship with…
— Rajneesh
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Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated…
— Hubertus Strughold
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He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's…
— Jonathan Maberry
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Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every…
— John Woolman
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It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold, wild lass, and…
— Laini Taylor
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What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened…
— Don DeLillo
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For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and…
— Daniel Defoe
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A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise is…
— George Polya
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To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find no other device…
— Maimonides
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Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished…
— Emile Zola
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The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability,…
— Carl Sagan
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While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild…
— Anna Kavan
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It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule the lesser species…
— Stephen Colbert
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He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or…
— Dean Koontz
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
— Plutarch
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The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping…
— Alice Munro
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Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity…
— Tove Jansson
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