#ants

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#get #government #kick #need #pants

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#around #beast #begin #bits #calculating

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#ball #burden #descendants #direct #drop

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so. ↗

— Athanasius

#anyone #approximation #city #clear #country

I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#going #hungry #i #i think #just

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early. ↗

— Max Baer

#define #early #fear #go #go home

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. ↗

— Peter Tosh

#everybody #go #heaven #nobody #wants

Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy. ↗

— Nina Totenberg

#career #charge #could #ever #get

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people. ↗

— Harry Belafonte

#believes #bush #despite #his #i

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#appropriate #bank #central #central bank #chance