Creatures Quotes

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Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by… — Alberto Manguel
Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction… — Michel Houellebecq
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all… — Wendell Berry
Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us. — John Moulder Wilson
Humans can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet they're potentially more vicious than any other. They are the only ones who can… — Benjamin Spock
The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of… — H. L. Mencken
True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions… — Zhuangzi
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made. — Henry Ward Beecher
One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five… — Henry David Thoreau
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures. — Margaret of Valois
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. — C.S. Lewis
I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to make… — Nick Brandt
Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left. Books collected on… — Luc Sante
As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in the pecking order… — Bob Sutton
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest. — Michel de Montaigne
Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough… — Eric Hoffer
We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the… — Robert Fulghum
I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to… — Marcel Proust

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