Creatures Quotes - Page 13

• You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. You have no clue of how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Shining, Earth

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Bloodlines: The Golden Lily”, p.314, Penguin UK

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• Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

  George Orwell

  Men, Animal, Interest

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.

  Isaac Marion

  Mistake, Responsibility, Judgement

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• There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

  Brian Jacques

  Brave, Coward, World

  Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.23, Penguin

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• Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant smile of a woman who knows what feeble creatures men can be. You couldn't learn to smile like that. It was something a woman either knew the minute she was born, or never knew at all. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

  Cornell Woolrich

  Husband, Men, Tonight

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• We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core - which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word "love".

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Father, Tired

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• I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

  Kristin Cashore

  Pushing Me Away

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.

  Stephen King

  Men, Wife, Good Wife

  Stephen King (2016). “The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Remember, Poet, Said

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Leave it to Psmith”, p.116, Random House

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• He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Flower, Evil, Tree

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Respect begins with this attitude: "I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth. God has endowed you with certain abilities and emotions. Therefore I respect you as a person. I will not desecrate your worth by making critical remarks about your intellect, your judgment or your logic. I will seek to understand you and grant you the freedom to think differently from the way I think and to experience emotions that I may not experience." Respect means that you give the other person the freedom to be an individual.

  Gary Chapman

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

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• So we found the end of our journey. So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.

  Ted Hughes

  Journey, Light, Rivers

  Ted Hughes (2012). “Collected Poems of Ted Hughes”, p.990, Faber & Faber

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• I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Lovely, Saws, Causes

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.87

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• Do you think you have the right to give me orders now?" The Archangel of New York, a creature so lethal that part of her feared him even now, lifted the hair off her nape, brushed his lips across her skin. "Of course. You are mine." No hint of humor, nothing but stark possession. "I don't think you've quite got the hang of this true love thing.

  Nalini Singh

  New York, Thinking, Hair

  Nalini Singh (2010). “Archangel's Kiss”, p.4, Penguin

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• Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

  Mark Twain

  Sports, Dog, Pain

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• People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Fall, Color

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Understanding Your Potential: Discovering the Hidden You”, p.12, Destiny Image Publishers

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• My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

  Jodi Picoult

  Brother, Men, Dragons

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.

  Marcel Proust

  Clever, Being In Love, Men

  Marcel Proust “Swann’s Way”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

  Doris Lessing

  Intelligent, Men, Emotional

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• ...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Two, Long, Upset

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.165, Scholastic Inc.

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• When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Imagination, Darkness, Suggestions

  Algernon Blackwood (2008). “Three Supernatural Classics: The Willows, the Wendigo and the Listener”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Humor, Adorable

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Book, Winning, Romance

  Jayne Ann Krentz (1992). “Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance”, p.5, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Love Is, Self

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• The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Lying, Men

  Marcel Proust (2010). “In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive”, p.515, Random House

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