Creatures Quotes

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The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry… — Rollo May
If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine. — Thomas a Kempis
What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker.… — John W. Gardner
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe. — Albert Schweitzer
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature. — George Eliot
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:… — William Wordsworth
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to… — Nicholas A. Christakis
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. — Nan Fairbrother
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes? — Robert Breault
O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! — Thomas Hood
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct.… — Rollo May
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by… — Hans Zinsser
Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary… — Michel de Montaigne
A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance… — Ambrose Bierce
If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and… — Johannes Kepler
Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails… — Alfred Nobel
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this… — George Wald

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