Creatures Quotes

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In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may… — Rebecca Solnit
I couldnâ€™t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. — Jeanette Winterson
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a… — Vladimir Nabokov
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever. — Philip Pullman
To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon… — Pope Benedict XVI
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination,… — Eduardo Galeano
Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods. The… — Ursula Vernon
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate… — Marquis de Sade
...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on… — Louisa May Alcott
[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him. — Louisa May Alcott
Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to… — Libba Bray
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find… — Arthur Rimbaud
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour… — Thomas Hardy
If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who… — Temple Grandin
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which… — Gene Wolfe
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. — Charlotte Bronte

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