Creatures Quotes

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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is… — Thomas More
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part… — Wallace Stegner
The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature… — Charles Perrault
That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may eagerly assume their… — Pope Benedict XVI
Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and joy toward all… — Pope Benedict XVI
Don't count your wrongs, count your blessings and you shall not fail. Any human who calls himself a creature of God and does not count,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices… — Ramana Maharshi
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A… — Alexander Hamilton
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form… — Ambrose Bierce
Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands. — Jayne Mansfield
The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most,… — Dante Alighieri
Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings.… — Mikao Usui
There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are… — Alister Hardy
Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of… — Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases… — Athanasius of Alexandria
Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation… — Robert Stawell Ball
I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living… — Fred Bear
We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on… — Joseph Glanvill
An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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