Quotes with creatures

  • The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
  • There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
  • The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
  • There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
  • Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
  • You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they're exaggerated creatures.
  • I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
  • One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
  • Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
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  • Marcus Aurelius Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
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  • Joseph Addison If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joseph Addison Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joseph Addison The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Graham Swift All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
    Graham Swift
    English writer (1949 - )
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  • Francis Bacon As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Robertson Davies Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Anthony Trollope Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Thomas De Quincey Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Clarence Day Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
    Clarence Day
    American author and cartoonist (1874 - 1935)
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  • Marquis de Sade Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • William Somerset Maugham For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Bill Cosby Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Ashley Montagu Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Thomas Paine I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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