Quotes with creature

  • I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.
  • [Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
  • If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
  • Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
  • A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
  • An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
  • There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
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  • Anita Brookner A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bruce Lee Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Freda Adler That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
    Freda Adler
    American criminologist and educator (1934 - )
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  • Sir Richard Steele A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • John Stuart Mill A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Charles Dickens A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Lord Chesterfield All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
    Letters (1892)
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Vera Brittain All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Martin Luther An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
    Martin Luther
     
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  • William Faulkner An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • John Milton As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Voltaire Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Thomas Mann Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Abraham Cowley Fill all the glasses there, for why
    Should every creature drink but I?
    Why, man of morals, tell me why?
    From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Thomas Carlyle For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Harrison God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.
    The Status of Annexed Territory and of Its Free Civilized Inhabitants in North American Review, vol. 172, no. 530 (January 1901), p. 22.
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Irving Layton God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Francis Bacon God's first creature, which was light.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • John Locke Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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