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Quotes About Creatures

On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen.
~ Adoniram Judson
She had made Matthew want to smile. With her luminous skin, her exotic cinnamon-colored eyes and quicksilver expressions, Daisy Bowman seemed to have come from an enchanted forest populated with mythical creatures.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I'm used to wild creatures who don't like to be approached from behind." He shot her a baleful glance. "How fortunate that your experience with animals has turned out to be such good preparation for marriage to me.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Do not mistake my compassion for injured creatures as any kind of personal interest, Mr. Devlin. I once bandaged the paw of a stray dog I found in the village. I would place you in the same category as he." "My angel of mercy.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Her younger sister was at ease with men in a way that Poppy could never manage. They seemed to adore Beatrix because she treated them as she did her wild creatures, gently humoring, showing patient interest.
~ Lisa Kleypas
O brave new world, that hath such people in it Soon you will be like her, Prospero's daughter, Finding the door that leads you out of yourself, Out of the rare, enameled ark of your mind, Where you live with the gracious and light-footed creatures That thrive in the glaze of your art and freedom.
~ Lisel Mueller
Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.
~ Unknown
At that moment she heard from the room beyond the terrifying noises by means of which primitive man once warned away the creatures skulking near his cave at night. She crept closer to the door and listened. It was true. Mr. Demowery was snoring.
~ Loretta Chase
Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
Calories, Emily said on a sigh. The evil tiny creatures that live in my closet and sew my clothes a little tighter every night.
~ Jill Shalvis
Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice. For my next trick, I panted into the startled silence, anvils.
~ Jim Butcher
One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored.
~ Jim Butcher
One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored.
~ Jim Butcher
Así que vamos a entrar en un laberinto de antiguos túneles oscuros y putrefactos, llenos de monstruos y criaturas malignas. Asentí. - Y puede que haya también algo de radiactividad.
~ Jim Butcher
Freaking manipulative faeries," I
~ Jim Butcher
Hero-ology, Spell-ology, Revenge-ology, Beast-ology, and Beautyology.
~ Joan Holub
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.
~ Jodi Picoult
Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.
~ Alexander MacLaren
A sensible person is one who has a sensitive nature towards all living creatures and this is his or her best personality features towards the positive outlook in life.
~ Anuj Somany
almost every pearl on sale today was born of the planned sexual violation of a small creature, and that considerable suffering hangs on those necklace strings.
~ Victoria Finlay
One of the most distinctive features of psychosis is its dynamic of externalization. Madness is experienced as being enacted on the subject from without; a person perceives his own unintegrated psychological contents as outer-world creatures and demons who threaten to engulf and physically destroy him. The barriers between inner and outer, subject and object, dissolve so entirely that no boundary remains to protect the ego from the onslaught of this projected unconscious material.
~ Unknown
My tea has overbrewed: it is bitter, but still drinkable. I turn on the television and return to the present. Four plump humanoid creatures, red, yellow, green and purple, are frolicking on a grassy hill. Rabbits nibble the grass. The creatures hug each other. A periscope emerges from a knoll and tells them they must say goodbye. After a little protest, they do, jumping one by one into a hole in the ground.
~ Vikram Seth
God exhibits a natural benevolence toward all his creatures, and it is called "love" in this restricted sense. The purpose is to preserve them for his use, including the display of his wrath when he punishes them for their sins. But to the chosen ones, God's love also means self-sacrifice (in redeeming them through Christ) and self-disclosure (in providing them theological knowledge).
~ Unknown
I cling to the beauty and strength of nature and all wild creatures with a passion born of certainty that only through them can i retain my perspective about life and my own part in it.
~ Unknown