Creatures Quotes - Page 38

• But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Wisdom, Men, Unity

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• Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Pride

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• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.

  Martha Graham

  Art, Dancer, Ballet

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• If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Air

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.121, Vintage

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• There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and muscles frequently originate movements which suggest flight; and then there are pilots who regardless of their airborne time remain earth-loving bipeds forever. When these latter unfortunates, because of one urge or another, actually make an ascension, they neither anticipate nor relish the event and they drive their machines with the same graceless labor they inflict upon the family vehicle.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Views, Bird, Forever

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• We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for.

  Sam Keen

  Animal, Forever, Heaven

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• I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.

  Uwe Boll

  Dark, Thinking, Too Much

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• He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care enough about him to really find out what he was like and what his dreams were. He was an outcast, a creature somehow vastly different from all other people, an object of scorn and derision, an outsider, secretly loathed and ridiculed by everyone who met him, even by those few who professed to love him.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, People, Different

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• What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

  Terry Brooks

  Life, Men, Hatred

  Terry Brooks (2012). “Terry Brooks Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: The Sword of Shannara, Magic Kingdom for Sale: Sold!, Running with the Demon, Armageddon's Children”, p.426, Del Rey

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• It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to seek for peace in Her maternal goodness; showing that the Catholic Church has always, and with justice, put all her hope and trust in the Mother of God. And truly the Immaculate Virgin, chosen to be the Mother of God and thereby associated with Him in the work of man's salvation, has a favour and power with Her Son greater than any human or angelic creature has ever obtained, or ever can gain

  Pope Leo X

  Mother, Son, Men

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• But O the exceeding grace
  Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,
  And all his works with mercy doth embrace,
  That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,
  To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.

  Edmund Spenser

  Blessed, Angel, Men

  Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd (1869). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser”, p.98

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• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

  Edmund Spenser

  Fall, Liberty, Delight

  'Muiopotmos' l. 209

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• Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

  Demosthenes

  Brother, Ideas, Differences

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• Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Silurian age to the present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures. To the question why we do not find records of these vast primordial periods, I can give no satisfactory answer.

  Charles Darwin

  Giving, Long, Age

  Charles Darwin (1866). “On the origin of species ... A facsimile of the first edition, with an introduction by Ernst Mayr. With a portrait and a bibliography”, p.370

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• This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

  Sharon Olds

  May, Force

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• As members of the Lord's Church, we must take missionary work more seriously. The Lord's commission to 'preach the gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15) will never change in our dispensation. We have been greatly blessed with the material means, the technology, and an inspired message to bring the gospel to all men. More is expected of us than any previous generation. Where 'much is given much is required.' (D&C 82:3.)

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Blessed, Mean, Technology

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• As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

  Jules Verne

  Heart, Long, Soul

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth / Voyage au centre de la terre (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.181, Jules Verne

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• Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Morality, Danger, Accepting

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement. Let us not leave in our wake a swatch of destruction and death which will affect our own lives and those of future generations.

  Pope Francis

  Generations, World, Body

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• The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Voice, Rights, World

  Roger Tory Peterson (2007). “All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures”, p.271, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Errors, Lord

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.300

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• C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Bridges, Voice, Soul

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• The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.

  Hafez

  God, Air, Feet

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• As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,
  all of his works are zero.
  When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead,
  then the work of the Teacher is over.

  Kabir

  Teacher, Zero, Long

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.

  Vasily Grossman

  Kindness, Men, People

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