Best Living Things Lines
178 Living Things quotes by 151 unique authors
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From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read…
— Pat Conroy
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We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does…
— Albert Schweitzer
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She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’…but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other…
— Thomas Pynchon
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There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to…
— Richard P. Feynman
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My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things…
— Waris Dirie
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There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with…
— Wendell Berry
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A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
— George R. R. Martin
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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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That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little…
— Hermann Hesse
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Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back…
— William Golding
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Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain…
— Gore Vidal
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Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives,…
— Jane Goodall
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The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the…
— Diana Gabaldon
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We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed…
— Juliet Marillier
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But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade…
— Neil Gaiman
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Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.
— Jane Goodall
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The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the gifts of the…
— Unknown Author
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The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view…
— Rebecca Adamson
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How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a…
— Antony Gormley
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