Best Living Thing Quotations
166 Living Thing quotes by 138 unique authors
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I would like to comment on the God fiber within each living thing. This essence, this fiber of love and grace, runs in every vein,…
— Meredith L. Young-Sowers
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Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.
— Meredith L. Young-Sowers
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Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Tomorrow's God says that every church is 'his church,' and every faith is 'her faith,' and every soul is God's soul, because it shares the…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
— Irving Stone
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Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have…
— Daniel Dennett
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I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You…
— Philip Guston
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The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all…
— Lawren Harris
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When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its…
— Rachel Carson
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
— E E Cummings
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A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of…
— Edna Ferber
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I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
— Joan Jett
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
— D. H. Lawrence
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The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
— Steven Pinker
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
— Herbert Spencer
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I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
— Don Van Vliet
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When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their…
— Bill Bryson
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You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not…
— L. Frank Baum
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In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco,…
— Philip K. Dick
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Wouldn't it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?' That would…
— Donita K. Paul
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What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still.…
— Ayn Rand
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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
— Umberto Eco
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Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in…
— David Wroblewski
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