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  • It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.

  • I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

    Squash   Green   Tongue  
    Source: www.compulsivereader.com
  • The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants.

    Overcoming   May   Ants  
    Statement in opposition of the planned construction of the Yamato class battleships. "Scraps of Paper: The Disarmament Treaties Between the World Wars". Book by Harlow A. Hyde, 1988.
  • Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.

  • When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

  • If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

    Time   Picnics   Ants  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

    Kings   Fall   Power  
    Eugénie de GUÉRIN, François Guillaume Stanislas TRÉBUTIEN (1866). “Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]”, p.180
  • In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

    "Noam Chomsky: Truth to power". Interview with David McNeill, chomsky.info. February 22, 2014.
  • And an anteater plus a large hungry mutant ant? An ironic way to die.

    Funny   Humor   Ironic  
    Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham
  • Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty ant! Everything that helps us to live is a hero!

    Weed   Hero   Light  
  • The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

    Whales   Ants   Fine  
  • It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.

  • The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

    Path   Ants   Glaciers  
    John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.247, Open Road Media
  • The more films we make the more we get to deal with those pre-existing relationships. But when it comes to a movie like Ant-Man or Guardians or certainly Doctor Strange, it's just bringing to life stuff that's already been there in the comics and we finally get a chance to do it on the big screen.

    Men   Doctors   Stuff  
    Source: screenrant.com
  • The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

    Wisdom   Islamic   Men  
  • If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

    Buddy Wakefield (2011). “Gentleman Practice”, p.13, SCB Distributors
  • Ants are a curious race

    Race   Ants   Curious  
    Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”
  • Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.

    Moving   Hands   Forever  
    1921 Sour Grapes, 'Overture to a Dance of Locomotives'.
  • Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes which cover the cliffs, the filth and noise of Camp 4 (the climbers' campground), and worst of all, the multitudes of tourists which abound during the weekends and summer months.

  • If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.

    Reality   Thinking   Two  
  • Do not kill ants. They are your best friends.

    Joe Brainard (1971). “Selected Writings, 1962-1971”
  • It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

    Inspiring   Time   Fog  
    Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.

    Thinking   Brain   Trying  
    Source: thrownscabbard.blogspot.com
  • If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the world's inheritance,... these are the materials and hints for a history of the rise and progress of the race; how, from the condition of ants, it arrived at the condition of men, and arts were gradually invented. Let a thousand surmises shed some light on this story.

    Art   Men   Light  
    Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.342, e-artnow
  • I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.

    Green   Ants   Remember  
  • Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today.

    Winter   Today   Next  
  • I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.

    Running   Class   White  
    Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”
  • We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

    Oysters   Ants   Bees  
    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.169, Courier Corporation
  • Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

    Men   Ants   Superiority  
    John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.491
  • How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

    Singing   Vision   Ants  
    Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria
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