Top 192 Creeping Quotes & Sayings

Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

People can live without a giant state. We've proven that already. But a giant state cannot live without dependent people. We feed the beast that puts us in shackles of our own creation. They are dependent on us. We think of revolutions as gunfire in the streets. But a soft and creeping tyranny can be beaten with a soft and creeping revolution. Think about it. Think about all the ways the totalitarian state is dependent on your personal actions. Think about what you do every day to help feed this beast and then stop doing that!

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.

Each time that I think you go, I turn around and you're creeping in.

I kind of liked all the creeping stuff [in Fifty Shades Darker], like when they're sleeping and there's me just standing behind the bed. It was great.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.

Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.

You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.

I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.

Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out.

I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.

He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.

When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let's park our minds in God's truth.

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

I feel an image is a creeping jail growing all around you without you even realising it. Suddenly, you are trapped, and an actor should never be trapped.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

Life has a way of creeping up on us.

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.

Europe certainly needs a genuine conservative movement to combat the creeping bureaucratic collectivism that is stifling the human potential of the Continent.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.

Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

In Spain, they're doing something right because the attendances keep creeping up, and teams are getting the opportunity to play at the men's stadiums.

The creeping optimism that there might be a route to peace in Syria remains constrained by the elephant in the room - Bashar al-Assad.

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

I think in my late 20s, I was starting to enter that realm of complacency, which is the most terrifying place I can imagine as an artist. I felt time creeping up on me.

Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?

My body was braille for the creeping influences.

What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge

When you're making music, you're creeping up on your heart and pouring it out into something.

REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

Even if I look at other people's social media I feel addiction creeping up on me.

In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia.

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely.

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

Some songs, you just can't shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.

Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.