Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1578 authors
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I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and…
— Brian Jacques
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Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a…
— Haruki Murakami
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Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose…
— Nancy Farmer
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You are one seriously testy Creature of the Night. (Amanda)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
— Kate DiCamillo
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We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator,…
— Peter Kreeft
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My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures…
— Craig Ferguson
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Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.
— Jim Butcher
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I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as…
— Lewis Thomas
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Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding…
— George Orwell
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They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking…
— Terry Pratchett
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Svengal lay groaning on the turf. His thighs were sheer agony. His buttocks ached. His calf muscles were on fire. Now, afterhe had tumbled off…
— John Flanagan
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It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect…
— Cesar Chavez
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the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves…
— Mark Twain
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The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy…
— Josephine Tey
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And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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As he left to answer the call, she heard him exclaiming in wonderment on the rise. "Rocks, Nash. Is that a river mare out there?…
— Kristin Cashore
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If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained…
— Cormac McCarthy
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