Creeps Quotes - Page 7

• I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Atheism, World, Holes

  Thomas Hobbes (1812). “The treatise on human nature and that on liberty and necessity. With a suppl. to which is prefixed an account of his life and writings by the editor [P. Mallet].”, p.66

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• Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.

  Emma Goldman

  Crush, Children, Betrayal

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• And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.

  John Dryden

  Excellence, Safe

  'Tyrannic Love' (1669) act 1, sc. 1

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• Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Responsibility, Bedroom, Prohibition

  "The Globe and Mail" Newspaper, (p. 61), December 12, 1967.

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• Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Men, Thinking, Japan

  "Satires (satire 8)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.

  Jessica Szohr

  Ghost Stories, Interesting, Watches

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At night when you're asleep, self-hatred's going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who's bed you sleep in.

  Ani DiFranco

  Sex, Sleep, Night

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• Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.

  Frank Zappa

  Order, Law, Criminals

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• Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me.

  Lyle Lovett

  Low Self Esteem, Looks, World

  Song: Creeps Like Me, Album: I Love Everybody

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• So many creeps in Hollywood.

  Roger Hodgson

  Reality, Hollywood

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• I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

  Karen Gillan

  Country, Television, London

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• I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

  Lydia Davis

  Teaching, Wish, Anecdotes

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• The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

  Bob Barr

  Government, Growing, Resistance

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• The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff.

  James Ellroy

  Doors, People, Waiting

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• I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives...and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country...But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House.

  Irene Dunne

  Country, Spring, Ocean

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• Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

  Epictetus

  Children, Play, Society

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• Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Flower, Play, Ivy

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• Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

  Jesse Schell

  Games, Starting, Aspect

  "Not motivated? Make a game of it". Interview with Zachary Pincus-Roth, articles.latimes.com. December 26, 2010.

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• If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.

  Vanna Bonta

  Dance, Mirrors, Giving

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• Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.

  Joseph Sobran

  Law, Liberty, May

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• Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Nature, Eye

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.517, Library of America

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• Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon - all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beauty, Education, Stress

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.94

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• I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and snatch at things, and bring them down with me... where I could munch away at them.

  Paula Rego

  Way, Upstairs, Basements

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• Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

  Georges Bernanos

  Daughter, Prayer, Despair

  Georges Bernanos (1938). “A diary of my times”

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• Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Mind, Deceit

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