Creature Quotes

• It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Arms
  • Creature
  • Heaven's Gifts

• And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Possibilities
  • Creature
  • Flourish

• Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

  

  Solon
  • Laws
  • Creature
  • Caught

• Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Changes
  • Creature
  • Gloves

• I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Habit
  • Creature
  • Life consistency

• I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something.

  

  Brad Leithauser
  • Belief
  • Flowers
  • Cling

• But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Goal
  • Creature
  • Chess Player

• In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Creature

• I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Kill
  • Destroy
  • Creature

• The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Creature
  • Altars

• I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Creature

• I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.

  

  Alejandro Ghersi
  • Creature
  • Celebrated
  • Mutation

• A unicorn is a mythical creature that you've never seen before. And a unicorn player, he makes plays and does stuff you've never seen before.

  

  Mohamed Bamba
  • Plays
  • Creature
  • Mythical

• There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Creature
  • Dawn
  • Solemnity

• I saw her fly toward the asphalt and felt a cruel joy. She seemed to me, as she fell, an ugly creature.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Joy
  • Creature
  • Asphalt

• And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Eternity
  • Creature
  • Wide

• Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities.

  

  Rick Baker
  • Because
  • Creature
  • Limitations

• 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.

  

  Jane Austen
  • World
  • Spirit
  • Perfection

• One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

  

  Plotinus
  • Universe
  • Principle
  • Complex

• As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Soul
  • Despair
  • Heartbeats

• 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.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Human
  • Exist
  • Degree

• Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • War
  • Creature
  • Proves

• Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Creature
  • Fellows
  • Man Is

• Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Power
  • Found
  • Creature

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