Creatures Quotes
2516 quotes by 1578 authors
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My dear creature, I have done with all debate. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes…
— Patrick O'Brian
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There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.
— George MacDonald
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Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love?…
— Wilkie Collins
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And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait…
— Philip Pullman
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What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.
— Kristin Cashore
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Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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For instance, dragons are deeply revered by the Chinese. According to legend they have megapowers that include weather control and life creation. And they’re seen…
— Jennifer Rardin
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I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would…
— Charlotte Bronte
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God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.
— Blaise Pascal
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Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there…
— Jack Kerouac
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Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They…
— Tamora Pierce
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Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn’t paying attention,
— Eileen Wilks
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I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.
— Gail Caldwell
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Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
— David Eagleman
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A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we…
— John Green
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor;…
— Mark Twain
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So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all…
— Jules Verne
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
— Antonio Porchia
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One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the world’s people, those…
— Haki R. Madhubuti
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If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.
— Christine Feehan
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