Creatures Quotes

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words.

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Creation is not a light-hearted game. The creator commits to a terrible adventure, which is to take up-on himself all of the dangers that his creatures run.

The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

Tokyo is like a huge futuristic pinball machine. It's like a bubble with two lost creatures inside a pinball machine that doesn't care about them. The other thing is, it's very colorful.

Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.

Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.

The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.

It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.

We are called to live our baptism every day, as new creatures, clothed in Christ.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.

If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive

The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.

Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.

For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

No creature, large or small, ever fails to cover the ground upon which it stands.

There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

[I] educate people to be kinder to each other, and to other life-forms. There has been racism, sexism and now there is 'species-ism.' People think that they are better than other creatures.

Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures.

He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.

Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.