Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1578 authors
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When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were…
— Patch Adams
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What’s your name, lad?†“Newton. Newton Pulsifer.†“LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the…
— Neil Gaiman
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Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like...…
— Suzanne Collins
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The intruder hesitated, turned, and anchored itself in the corner, where the ceiling met the wall. It sat there, fastened to the paneling by enormous…
— Ilona Andrews
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If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine…
— Wendell Berry
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the…
— Jane Austen
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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.
— Voltaire
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And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the…
— Brandon Sanderson
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we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk…
— Iris Murdoch
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What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get…
— C.S. Friedman
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...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)
— Kathryn Lasky
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Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such…
— Kami Garcia
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I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.
— Charlotte Bronte
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But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
— Wilkie Collins
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When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell
— Teresa Medeiros
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There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . .…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large…
— Jasper Fforde
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