Creature Quotes - page 2

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. (Benjamin Franklin)
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! View quote
Thomas Mann
The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle. View quote
Samuel Beckett
The Angel that presided oer my birth Said Little creature, formd of joy and mirth, Go, love without the help of anything on earth. View quote
William Blake
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. View quote
Vera Brittain
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. View quote
William Wordsworth
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. View quote
William Wordsworth
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. View quote
Morris West
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control. (Paul Theroux)
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. View quote
Marcel Proust
Every creature is a word of God. View quote
Meister Eckhart
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
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. View quote
John Locke
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it. View quote
Sebastian Barry
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood. View quote
Amy Levy
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. View quote
Marv Levy
The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power. View quote
Roy Moore
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows. (Rachel Carson)
Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but 'vector' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature. View quote
William Thomson
He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. View quote
Thornton Wilder
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horrorwhen He saw the creature He had made in His own image. View quote
Irving Layton