Creatures Quotes

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As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At… — Martha C. Nussbaum
She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more… — Christopher Moore
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even… — Jane Austen
It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be… — Thomas Hardy
She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. — C.S. Lewis
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,… — Wendell Berry
What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means… — Albert Einstein
How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself? — C.S. Lewis
It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only… — Thomas Merton
If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures… — Cormac McCarthy
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly… — Adam Smith
It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn… — T.H. White
Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle.… — Ambrose Bierce
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants… — Dalai Lama
It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people. — Natsuo Kirino
I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged… — Paulo Coelho
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind… — C.S. Lewis
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then… — Peter De Vries

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