Creatures Quotes
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The sun exactly at noon is exactly beginning to go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly beginning to die.
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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?
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Men are visual creatures.
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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.
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I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
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Woman are complex creatures.
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The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
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Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law.
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Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.
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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.
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Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.
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What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?
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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'.
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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.
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Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.
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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.
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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?
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When everything seems like its changed…its because things have." Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.
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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.
