Creatures Quotes

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

An artist is a creature driven by demons.

He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

The soul is the same in all living creatures although the body of each is different.

Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives;

very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing.

I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism;

but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice.

Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

God's first creature, which was light.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator.

Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy.

There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

I've been a vegetarian for years and years.

I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.