Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"Ambition can creep as well as soar."
Creeps quotes
Creeps
47 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ovid
Poet
"Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent."
Diana Krall
Jazz Musician
"So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"The insolence of wealth will creep out."
Helen Keller
Author, Activist
"We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!"
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"You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping."
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"I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out."
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"terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind"
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"You know that love Will creep in service where it cannot go."
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"If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that."
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