logo

Quotes About Creatures

Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.
~ Natsuki Takaya
It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.
~ Cassiodorus
The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.
~ C. S. Lewis
Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
~ Alain de Botton
Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.
~ Jessica Green
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes Gods and meaner creatures kings.
~ William Shakespeare
Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dragonswan
Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.
~ Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Lucien, women are wondrous, mysterious, and magical creatures, who should be treated not only with respect but with reverence, perhaps even awe. Now go sweep the steps.
~ Christopher Moore
there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.
~ Robert Breault
God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.
~ R.N. Prasher
Any creature, even one as unassuming as a fish, can become something mighty. When they courageously endure their trials, they meet their destiny.
~ Colleen Houck, Tiger's Promise
Jonas Wergeland's first stroke of genius, albeit unbeknownst to himself, was to choose a girl as his best friend. It was Nefertiti who taught him that women are, first and foremost, teachers then mistresses - and above all that when you come right down to it, the female is a very different and, more o the point, a much more fascinating creature than the male.
~ Jan Kjærstad
It's the closest thing we poor creatures have to magic, my dear—the ability to be transported through time by a waft of scent that unlocks memory.
~ Jason Fry
What is God? The eternal One Life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of that One Life deep within yourself and within all creatures. To be it. Therefore, all love is the love of God.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Cuando llegamos a la Luna, ese fue el momento en que Dios debió haber venido y decir hola. Porque si inventas algunas criaturas, los pones en azul y llegan al gris, es el jodido momento de aparecer y decir bien hecho.
~ Eddie Izzard
He killed for food most often, but, being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
In Hastor I have paid a good price to see one of these creatures and now I found myself in a position where I should very gladly pay a good deal more not to see one, but from the noise he was making in the shaft beneath me it appeared to me that he was determined that I should have a free show and he a free meal.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
A little child may find companionship in many strange and simple creatures, but to a grown man there must be some semblance of equality in intellect as the basis for agreeable association.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
~ Albert Einstein