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“Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to me. It was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child.”

Want Writing Children Has Beens Made Stories Mother My Own Boys Creatures Favourite Centre Elephants Kipling

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.”

Thinking I Can Reason Figures Creatures Understood Paid Species Obligation Penalties Biologist

Author:Wendell Berry

“A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.”

Film Guy Team Football Creatures Football Team Straight Up

Author:Terry Crews

“There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.”

Whole Sun Creatures Shoes Settling Unfortunate Fetish

Author:Karl Kraus

“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.”

Different Heard Subjects Creatures Cat Pet Delicate Insomnia Kitten Ailments Feline Funny Cat Cat Dog Pets Cats Cat Love Inspirational Cat Cute Cat Kitty Cat Herding Cats Alley Cats

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.”

Habit Creatures Consistency Creatures Of Habit

Author:Mila Kunis

“Woman are complex creatures.”

Creatures Complexes

Author:Talib Kweli

“Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.”

Reality Existence Influence Creatures Perceive Living Creatures

Author:Robert Lanza

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

Thinking Humans Soul Human Beings Creatures Curious Dozen

Book:Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus

“A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.”

Men Literature Poor Creatures

Author:Honore de Balzac

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

Men Important Individual Consciousness Style Creatures Approach Creating Martial Arts Mastery Living Creatures Martial Arts Inspirational Individual Style

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.”

Ifs Able Law Decision Creatures Protection Evolve Sensitive Romania

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“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!”

Humans Eye Wonderful Creatures Structure Phenomenon Jewels Brilliance Human Eyes

Book:Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years

Source: Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years

“I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl.”

Want Looks Girl Creatures Blessed Incredibles Forgotten Invisible Miserable Genes Unbelievable Looking Good Geek

Author:Shirley Manson

“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.”

Source: Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'

“It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.”

Ends Creatures Magnificent Slaughter Whales

Author:Paul McCartney

“If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.”

Ifs World Different Character God Design Expression Personality Creatures Valuable Divinity Sparks Philanthropy Living Creatures My Own Personality Personality And Character

Author:Bruce Barton

“You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.”

Knows Believe Stars Creatures Queens Astrology

Author:Freddie Mercury

“It's impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.”

Feelings Bigs Motivational Our Lives Impossible Emotional Creatures

Author:Joyce Meyer

“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

“Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.”

Men Book Self Reason Creatures Thee Reasonable Good Book

Author:John Milton

“We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.”

Thinking Humans Stills Human Beings Strange Creatures Reserves

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”

Night House Creatures Christmas Mice Stirring Christmas Day Christmas Holiday Funny Christmas Christmas Magic Holiday Traditions Funny Christmas Card Christmas Joy Great Christmas Advent Christmas St Nicholas

Author:Clement Clarke Moore

“Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit.”

“The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.”

Men Balance Creatures Constitution Separation Checks Fallen Premises Separation Of Powers

Author:Roy Moore

“In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.”

Way Different Creatures Different Ways

Author:Dylan Moran

“It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.”

Ifs Thinking Children Happens Emotion One Thing Creatures Jokes Complexes Rap Gorgeous Posters Great Change

Author:Alanis Morissette

“What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?”

Stills Reality Light Might Asks Sun Fire Divine Creatures Reflection Creator Glowing

Book:Memories

Source: Memories

“First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.”

People Firsts Opportunity Belief Strong Rights Creatures Equal Deserve Feminist Stem Equal Opportunity

Author:Kathy Najimy

“Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.”

Kind Stills Actors Acting Goes On Walking Scene Creatures Refuse Trailers

Author:Liam Neeson

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”

“Many children fully realize their parents see them as astonishing creatures and incorporate that into their daily presentations. That is, they throw their stuff on the floor because if you are truly amazing you can pretty much do what you want. Right?”

Ifs Want Children Stuff Parent Realizing Creatures What You Want Astonishing Presentation

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.”

Men Country Home Son Husband Creatures My Husband Chickens Turkeys Occasional

Author:Susan Orlean

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.”

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.”

Firsts Kind Literature Creatures Hunger Lust Violent Preserves Latter Appetite Perpetual

Book:The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

“If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.”

Ifs Men Believe Heart May Literature Creatures Capable Laughter Faculty Distinguished Mirth

Author:Joseph Addison

“I mean, I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.”

Giving Feelings Certain Seeing Tvs Creatures Program Massive Looking Forward Whales

Author:Karl Pilkington

“We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.”

Sound Creatures Visuals Fades

Author:Steven Pinker

“We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.”

World Violence Creatures Violent Cognitive

Author:Steven Pinker

“Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?”

Firsts Humans Seems Process Tree Produce Evolution Internet Moon Creatures Ocean Crosses Extraordinary Fishes Boat Oaks Human Evolution Oak Tree Slugs

Author:Steven Pinker

“Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.”

Want Wells Creatures Behavior Plant Chemicals Warfare Resorts Saturated Toxins Irritants Chemical Warfare

Author:Steven Pinker

“We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.”

Life Use Nature Ought Creatures Treats Shoes Belonging Household Worn Living Creatures

Author:Plutarch

“Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.”

Humans Creatures Behavior Despise Human Behavior

Author:Sidney Poitier

“The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.”

People Numbers Known Creatures Roots Crowds Stupidity Squares Square Roots

Author:Terry Pratchett

“It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.”

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove. The Guermantes way

“War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.”

Men Littles War Earth Literature Strange Creatures Giants Routine Advocating

Book:Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe

Source: Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe

“Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.”

Shows Young Animal Quiet Creatures Passionate Breathing Ashamed Cows Tenderness Deprived Deep Love Animal Welfare Living Creatures Pet Animals

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)

“Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.”

May Names Wealth Praying Comfort Creatures Attachment Praying To God Transitory Creature Comforts

Author:Ramakrishna

“The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.”

Earth Religion Principles Hell Creatures Pursue Consistently Pursued Living Creatures Asceticism

Book:The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Source: The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

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