Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1578 authors
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
— Sydney Smith
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The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
— Ian Somerhalder
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My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'
— Steven Spielberg
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Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as…
— Lysander Spooner
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to…
— Lewis Thomas
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Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the…
— Lewis Thomas
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
— Anthony Trollope
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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land…
— Stewart Udall
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The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more…
— Alice Walker
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I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.
— Paul Walker
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I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.
— Gerard Way
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Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his…
— Daniel Webster
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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of…
— Simone Weil
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't…
— Rachel Weisz
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of…
— Ida B. Wells
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Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his…
— Morris West
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We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be…
— Vivienne Westwood
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