Creature Quotes - page 4

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning. (Hermann Hesse)
Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: "Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being." Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept. View quote
Sam Harris
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter. View quote
François Fénelon
The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will. View quote
John Marshall
You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava Gardner - and says, "I like you and why don't we get together?" What are you going to say, "No"? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature. View quote
Artie Shaw
No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all. View quote
George Orwell
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. View quote
George Orwell
If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more. View quote
A. E. Housman
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. View quote
Benjamin Harrison
Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world. (Cesar Millan)
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. View quote
Jane Austen
You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you. View quote
Jane Austen
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county. View quote
Jane Austen
Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
No human creature can give orders to love. View quote
George Sand
Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her. View quote
George Sand
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. View quote
William Faulkner
A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful. View quote
Daniel Defoe
It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness. View quote
Carl Sagan
Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature. (Jonathan Swift)
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. View quote
Henri Bergson
The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth. View quote
William Golding
Drink, pretty creature, drink. View quote
William Wordsworth
Small service is true service while it lasts. Of humblest friends, bright creature scorn not one The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. View quote
William Wordsworth