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  • If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and along comes a predator and has you for dinner. Many creatures do not sleep or sleep while standing so they can escape from dangerous situations. -- Bernie Siegel
  • There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart. -- Cornelia Funke
  • How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. -- G. Stanley Hall
  • Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively. -- Kate Winslet
  • Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
  • Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive. -- Michael Leunig
  • Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. -- Lewis Thomas
  • Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice. -- Clive Anderson
  • Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark! -- Ted Danson
  • I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' -- Abigail Adams
  • There are many ways to experience love. It can feel like a knife in your back, or it can feel like you're being lifted up by winged creatures towards a beautiful blinding light. -- Brandon Boyd
  • Robopocalypse' joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein's monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature who has crashed the streets of Tokyo. And then, of course, there's the Terminator. -- Daniel H. Wilson
  • By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing. -- Sylvia Earle
  • What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different taboos, and woe to anyone who breaks them. -- Holly Black
  • I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy. -- Bea Arthur
  • Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions. -- Michelle Paver
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  • To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species. -- Cary Fowler
  • I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds. -- Marya Hornbacher
  • Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures. -- Robin Williams
  • It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods ... -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think -- Jill Bolte Taylor
  • We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. -- Marilyn Monroe
  • O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't! -- William Shakespeare
  • What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few. -- Brian K. Vaughan
  • It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats. -- William Penn
  • A frightening menagerie, my emotions are Too many and varied to number Like creatures they crawl and they fly above Tearing my body asunder. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God. -- Alphonsus Liguori
  • Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves. -- Don Marquis
  • It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures. -- Charles Darwin
  • Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that. -- Suzanne Collins
  • Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers -- Anne Rice
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