Creatures Quotes

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as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Vengeous scowled. 'As you can see,' he said, 'you are vastly outnumbered.' I usually am.' Your situation has become quite untenable.' It usually does.' You… — Derek Landy
How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or… — James Lee Burke
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a… — Annie Dillard
It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so,… — Jeff Lindsay
It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures… — Wendell Berry
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr.… — Neil Gaiman
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone --… — Emily Dickinson
Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its… — Mikhail Bulgakov
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of… — Milan Kundera
Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most… — John Bunyan
What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it… — Graham Greene
Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with… — Jane Austen
Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for… — Patrick O'Brian
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds… — M. Scott Peck
The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it. — John Keats
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? — Charles Dickens
He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I am a creature of chemicals. — Orson Scott Card

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