Living Thing Quotes
166 quotes by 139 authors
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I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing…
— Gillian Anderson
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One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to find…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,…
— John Stuart Mill
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint,…
— Joseph de Maistre
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There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look…
— Cecelia Ahern
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True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started…
— William Golding
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or…
— Freya Stark
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Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
— Bertrand Russell
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A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who…
— William Dobell
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As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced…
— John Jacob Abel
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Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of…
— Reginald Punnett
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There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human…
— Ellen Bass
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The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with…
— Allan Sandage
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In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living…
— Bill Harley
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Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.
— Mary Lou Retton
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Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are. All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying…
— Thandie Newton
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Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.
— Portia de Rossi
Who Wrote These Living Thing Quotes
139 authors contributed a total of 166 Living Thing Quotes, led by these top contributors: