#ants

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#astonishing #continue #epic #hears #his

Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#everyday #friendly #heads #knew #lived

Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back ↗

— Sara Gruen

#age

She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#plants #seeds #beauty

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person. ↗

— David Baldacci

#ambition #beauty-pageants #ruthlessness #sarcasm #satire

Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly. ↗

— Jim Otto

#everyone #game #lightly #never #never take

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#business

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

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

We need to get some people in here. There's no passion out there. There's always an excuse. Nobody wants to step up and be a pro. ↗

— Jeff Malone

#excuse #get #here #need #nobody