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I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
by Barbara Steele (Actor, British , born in 1937) keywords: creature, decided, holding, image, kind, leash, obliged, publicity, shots, some, stand, their , welcoming I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.
by Helen Suzman (Politician, South African , born in 1917) keywords: admit, am, creature, end, frail, get, going, little, nasty, only, poor, provocative, pull, punches, receiving , thoroughly 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.
by William Temple (born in 1970) keywords: cannot, capable, creature, live, man, more, neither, nor, old, others, pleasures, receiving, sensible, than, them , unhappy 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.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) topics: Nature keywords: alive, aright, better, creature, dead, destroy, every, life, men, moose, pine, preserve, rather, than, trees, understands , will It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
by Jack Vance (Author, American , born in 1916) keywords: cell, creature, limit, office, seems, small, somebody, supervision, surveillance, under , working Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.
by Ben Vereen (Actor, American , born in 1946) keywords: accident, after, am, apart, back, because, creature, doing, everything, fall, find, fit, go, had, just, know, new, nine, own, seems, things, think, those, trying, used, why , years The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
by Swami Vivekananda (Clergyman, Indian , born in 1863) keywords: cannot, creature, error, greatest, miserable, only, power, recognizes, say, says, sin, sinner , weak You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.
by George Wald (Scientist, American , born in 1906) keywords: alive, appear, back, billion, creature, earth, every, first, life, line, organism, planet, primitive, represents, see, stretches, three, today, unbroken , years Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
by Ida B. Wells (Activist, American , born in 1862) keywords: brutality, country, creature, crime, fury, hour, insane, lynching, mob, national, our, outburst, sudden, uncontrolled , unspeakable If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
by Morris West (Writer, Australian , born in 1916) keywords: creature, divine, function, god, his, image, intelligence, made, man, noblest, search , truth Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
by Morris West (Writer, Australian , born in 1916) keywords: cave, creature, experiences, his, man, nightmare, pilgrimage, spiritual, traces, two, upon, walks, walls, wonders , worlds You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
by Morris West (Writer, Australian , born in 1916) keywords: also, caught, cave, creature, experiences, fact, his, man, nightmare, pilgrimage, spiritual, traces, two, upon, walks, walls, wonders , worlds When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
by Thornton Wilder (Novelist, American , born in 1897) keywords: alive, being, best, bring, creature, deepest, gift, god, happiness, highest, him, his, know, loves, misery, save, understanding, wants , whole We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.
by Don Young (Politician, American , born in 1933) keywords: adapt, changing, constant, constantly, created, creature, ever, god, make, nature, only, stand, still, thing , want
