Creatures Quotes

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Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by… — Virginia Woolf
In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To… — Melissa Marr
Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room. — Janette Rallison
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest â€” he had seen beautiful things and horrible things â€” but… — Michael Ende
A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart. — Jane Austen
At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them,… — Desiderius Erasmus
As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to… — Muriel Barbery
All the best, Sydney P.S. "The Red Hurricane" is what I named the car. P.P.S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still… — Richelle Mead
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath. — Khaled Hosseini
I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman… — Roger Zelazny
Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw… — David Sedaris
Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from… — Brian Jacques
All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their… — Margaret Atwood
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been… — George Orwell
she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist."… — Jodi Picoult
To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times… — Philip Zimbardo
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere,… — Hermann Hesse

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