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Quotes about Ants


I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Isak Dinesen

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall—think of it, ALWAYS.

Mahatma Gandhi

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Edward G. Bulwer-lytton

"If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you got that City Hall brogue. I did not know that Liberty was necessarily Irish." "If ye'd studied the history of art in its foreign complications, ye'd not need ask," replied Mrs. Liberty, "If ye wasn't so light and giddy ye'd know that I was made by a Dago and presented to the American people on behalf of the French Government for the purpose of welcomin' Irish immigrants into the Dutch city of New York. 'Tis that I've been doing night and day since I was erected."

O. Henry (pseudonym of William Sydney Porter)

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!

Alice Childress

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson

Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

Ronald Reagan

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Roland Barthes

Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance! Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.

Thomas Campbell

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.

John Quincy Adams

Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.

John Dryden

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

Basil O'Connor

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

John F. Kennedy

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]

Jean de la Bruyere

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard Petty

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Robin G. Collingwood

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

Wayne Calloway

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Samuel Mcchord Crothers

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.".

Robert Penn Warren

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

David Broder

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier than we are. Would I not be a criminal if, notwithstanding this view, I should provide for progeny, i.e. for unfortunates? [Ger., Ich verachte die Menschheit in allen ihren Schichten; ich sehe es voraus, dass unsere Nachkommen noch weit unglucklicher sein werden, als wir. Sollte ich nicht ein Sunder sein, wenn ich trotz dieser Ansicht fur Nachkommen, d.h. fur Ungluckliche sorgte?

Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt

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