Creatures Quotes
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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
Jack Zipes -
Men are visual creatures.
Talulah Riley
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Woman are complex creatures.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Although Shanghai is on the sea, it long lacked the prosperity that Hong Kong enjoyed, so while Hong Kong became known for its exotic ocean creatures, Shanghai built its diet around more commonplace river and sea fish.
Evan Osnos -
Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.
Eileen Wilks -
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.
Lao Tzu -
Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.
Lao Tzu
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Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.
Gautama Buddha -
When everything seems like its changed…its because things have." Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.
Kami Garcia -
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Johnny Depp -
Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law.
Rabbi Hillel -
We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.
Nelly Mazloum -
Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.
Lao Tzu
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Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.
Charles Dickens -
I like to make all my characters interesting. Be they male, female or creatures unknown.
Rhianna Pratchett -
Coaches are creatures of habit. I knew a coach who got a deal going where his players had to run a mile in six minutes. I asked why. He said, 'gut check'.
Abe Lemons -
Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
Emile Zola -
I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.
Arthur Honegger -
A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.
Norman Lindsay
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I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.
Richard Adams -
Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
George Eliot -
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
Sappho