#ant

A farm is a business, and I ran mine into the ground. The next year it grew back.
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— Jarod Kintz

#failure #farm #farmer #ground #growth

Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them. ↗

— Anthea Turner

#blankets #come #cushions #got #important

A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed. 'Hobbits!' he thought. 'Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There's something mighty queer behind this.' He was quite right, but he never found out any more about it. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fox #hobbits #business

He had to keep busy; he had to keep moving so that the sinews connected behind his eyes did not slip loose and spin his eyes to the interior of his skull where the scenes waited for him. ↗

— Leslie Marmon Silko

#move #sinews #skullduggery-pleasant #business

I didn't have the time to slice a hundred shallow cuts into his lips and make him suck limes. I was too busy to make him swallow oiled musket balls. I had more important things to think about now and a lot to do. -Saffron in Dust of 100 Dogs ↗

— A.S. King

#business

Consultants show you way forward and consider the job done, conveniently forgetting that if a child is only shown where to go and not how to walk towards it, he will never reach there. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#business #consultant #reality #strategy #business

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#best #colleges #costs #declining #foreign

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me. ↗

— Judith Moore

#anyone #feel #i #keep #me

No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#anxiety #busy-ness #business

Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hear... from my future Kids' Funny Business. ↗

— Ivan Stoikov

#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fun #funny #funny-humor