#creature

The person 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. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#being #better #chance #creature #exertions

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#behave #beings #creatures #human #human beings

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

— Dylan Moran

#creature #different #different ways #gnawing #inside

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? ↗

— Max Muller

#ask #creator #creature #divine #emitted

If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#between #communicate #communicating #creatures #cultures

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. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#actor #come #creatures #go #his

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

— Sharon Olds

#being #creature #force #into #itself

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. ↗

— George Orwell

#catch #consumes #creature #does #eggs

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures. ↗

— John Phillips

#built #creatures #death #frustration #horses

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

— Plutarch

#creatures #household #like #living #living creatures