Creatures Quotes

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Youâ€™ve got to be kidding me. I thought you were the most powerful of beings. Even the gods fear you. (Stryker) We all have predators.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest… — Herman Melville
Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And… — Alexandra Bracken
Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of… — William Shakespeare
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. — Voltaire
Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my… — Annie Dillard
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the… — Vladimir Nabokov
Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well… — Gail Carriger
She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was… — Rosemary Clement-Moore
If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every… — Sharon Shinn
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in… — Wendell Berry
Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures… — Wendell Berry
Dain kept his gaze on his plate and concentrated on swallowing the morsel he'd just very nearly choked on. She was possessive... about him. The… — Loretta Chase
Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of… — Tamora Pierce
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice. — Jane Goodall
Why do women want to dress like men when theyâ€™re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms?… — Tasha Tudor
Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true… — Alberto Manguel
So you've got no name?" I asked. "They couldn't think of one ugly enough?" The creature snarled, stepping over the unconscious policeman. "Set animal is… — Rick Riordan
And Poppy, remember that someday you will meet a frog who will turn into a handsome prince." "Good," Beatrix said. "Because all she's met so… — Lisa Kleypas

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