Best Creatures Quotes

The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.

Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

All abuse and waste of God’s creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature’s unpredictable creatures.

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day–to you, thief of fire, I speak.

All that a pacifist can undertake — but it is a very great deal — is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

…for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.

The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we’re pretty dumpy creatures.

The creature born is the creature dying.

People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of him. But they ought to understand that God cannot be apprehended from without, as if he were an object, for with him there is no outside nor can the Creator be set side by side with the creature.

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,
Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

Nothing in Nature’s sober found,
But an eternal Health goes round.
Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high–
Fill all the Glasses there; for why
Should every Creature Drink but I?
Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

All God’s creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God’s creatures.

I don’t have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.

She was such a beautiful and sweet creature… and so full of tricks.

We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.