Creatures Quotes

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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. — Plutarch
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. — Terry Pratchett
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different… — Marcel Proust
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth. — Ernie Pyle
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am… — Thomas de Quincey
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day. — Ramakrishna
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. — Samuel Richardson
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end… — Theodore Roosevelt
I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some… — Salman Rushdie
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. — John Ruskin
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason,… — Jonathan Sacks
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. — Carl Sagan
Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some… — Jerry Saltz
No human creature can give orders to love. — George Sand
Live with your century; but do not be its creature. — Friedrich Schiller
All things must; man is the only creature that wills. — Friedrich Schiller
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from… — Andres Segovia
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not… — Albert Schweitzer
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. — George Bernard Shaw
That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans… — Rob Sheffield

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