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Quotes About Creature

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.
~ Charles Churchill
Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
~ Cormac McCarthy
When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.
~ George Will
There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave.
~ Guy Endore
Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter
I'm very much an animal and nature person.
~ Jean Houston
Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.
~ Seamus Heaney
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
~ William Wordsworth
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.
~ Françoise Mauriac
Lailah Gifty Akita
~ A cat is a cat.
We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
~ A. E. Housman
Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.
~ Carl Sandburg
The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.
~ Petra Kelly
In a full-fledged case of desire, by way of contrast, a creature is able to form a mental representation of the thing it desires, compare the current state [sic] with the desired state, and initiate action to diminish these states. Only a creature with considerable brainpower will have these abilities.
~ William B. Irvine
All the complaints and criticisms about the inequality of men apply to inequalities in property, luxury, and creature comforts, not to knowledge, virtue, or even physical beauty and strength. But
~ William Graham Sumner
The Spirit exactly knows the heart of God to the creature, with all his counsels concerning him: 'The Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God,' I Cor. 2:10. And what are those 'deep things of God' the apostle means, but the counsels of love, which lie deep in his heart, till the Spirit draws them forth and acquaints the creature with them?
~ William Gurnall