Best Living Thing Words
166 Living Thing quotes by 138 unique authors
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs…
— Neil Gaiman
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Learn to master yourself-to understand both your fears and your desires. That's the key to magic. Then, no one shall have any hold over you.…
— Libba Bray
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The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life…
— Albert Einstein
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My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing.…
— Oscar Wilde
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If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain…
— Bill Bryson
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Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living…
— Temple Grandin
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
— Roberto Bolano
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Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would…
— Wernher von Braun
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All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.
— Brian Jacques
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that…
— William Golding
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts...
— Pat Conroy
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What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But…
— Pat Conroy
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Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
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Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by…
— Evelyn Underhill
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love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.
— Virginia C. Andrews
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The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can…
— Boris Pasternak
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
— Carl Sagan
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A relationship needs constant attention. It’s a living thing, not just a habit. You’ve got to keep on top of it.
— Matt Dunn
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What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words,…
— Richard Dawkins
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Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into…
— Scott Westerfeld
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Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be…
— Kate DiCamillo
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