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Quotes About Creature

Does God take care of beasts, and not of his more noble creature? And therefore we ought to judge charitably of the complaints of God's people which are wrung from them in such cases. Job had the esteem with God of a patient man, notwithstanding those passionate complaints.
~ Richard Sibbes
To show that the creature cannot be so low but there is somewhat in God above the misery of the creature, his mercy shall triumph over the basest estate where he will show mercy. Therefore there is mercy above all mercy and love above all love, in that Christ was a servant.
~ Richard Sibbes
P.P.S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are.
~ Richelle Mead
A newt, she decided, was a useful thing to have around.
~ Roald Dahl
Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Pregúntale a cualquier jardinero.
~ Roald Dahl
His expression was innocent, his eyes were not. What sort of creature had a face like that?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Good!" the creature echoed. "Doctor Nelson will be along in a minute. Feel like breakfast?" All symbols were in Smith's vocabulary but he had trouble believing that he had heard rightly. He knew that he was food, but he did not "feel like" food. Nor had he any warning that he might be selected for such honor.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Winona!" I said, quashing my first initial panic at finding a horned, tailed, demonic creature smiling at me.
~ Kim Harrison
I do not know from where the impression came, but it appeared to me that I had never in my life seen a more vile back than this one, and I did not regret that I had abused the creature before he left me.
~ Knut Hamsun
My advice." She pressed her fingers to her chest. "But didn't you recently say that I was a 'mad creature' who was 'soft in the head'? Sniff, sniff, Rydstrom. Sniff, sniff. I was so crushed that I ate a gallon of Ben & Jerry's, except I didn't because Valkyrie don't eat.
~ Kresley Cole
The crowd quieted as a whole, but more than one creature cursed under his breath, Not Regin. A drunk hunched over the bar muttered, That glowing one made me eat a transistor radio once.
~ Kresley Cole
Studying my face, Death narrowed his gaze. "Have you a plan, creature?" "Can't read my thoughts anymore?" "Perhaps not. But I can tell you are malingering." "Malingering? I don't speak S.A.T.
~ Kresley Cole
If a demon and a vampire mated, their offspring would be unique but in harmony, like a Labrador retriever crossed with a poodle. Voila, labradoodle! But a vemon was a made creature, as if one took the front half of the Lab and jammed it onto the back half of thr poodle. In other words, wrong.
~ Kresley Cole
Over-attachment for one's close relatives is simply born of ignorance. Every creature in the world is born alone and dies alone. He experiences the results of his own good and evil deeds and in the end leaves the present body to accept another. The belief that one person is the relation of another is nothing more than illusion.
~ Krishna Dharma
The creature is made of wood, replied the captain. Your magic will not work on wood, you know.
~ L. Frank Baum
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.
~ John Smith
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.
~ Augustus Hare
Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.
~ William J. Seymour
The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.
~ yeats william butler iii
You're not human. You're a being who is incapable of social intercourse. You're nothing but a creature, non-human and somehow strangely pathetic.
~ Yukio Mishima
The pebbleis a perfect creatureequal to itselfmindful of its limitsfilled exactlywith a pebbly meaning
~ Zbigniew Herbert