When having a party, go first; when walking in the water, go after. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. — Henry Ford
It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. — Henri Poincare
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. — Confucius
Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.
Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow. — Horace
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. — Miguel de Cervantes
Short Ante Quotes
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper. — Kahlil Gibran
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. — Bela Lugosi
Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise. — Bible Proverbs
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? — Henry David Thoreau
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo
The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants. — Isoroku Yamamoto
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine. — Bill Vaughan
Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion. — Saadi Shirazi
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics? — Marie Dressler
At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish. — Thai Proverbs
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Up The Ante Quotes
I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything. — Holly Valance
I was playing golf. I swung, missed the ball, and got a big chunk of dirt. I swung again, missed the ball, and got another big chunk of dirt. Just then, 2 ants climbed on the ball saying, "Let's get up here before we get killed!" — Henny Youngman
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. — E. O. Wilson
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. — E. O. Wilson
When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly through the clean air, watching the earth below. — Eddie Rickenbacker
Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious. — Craig Stone
Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It's been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it's going to up the ante. — Phil Anselmo
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. — Horace
The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you shoot up into the air. It's exhilarating and I'm tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish. — Suzanne Collins
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again. — Madeleine L'Engle
What Am Going Through Quotes
When the end is near, we suddenly start thinking, What the hell am I doing? Why did I wait this long? Until then, most of us go through life as if we had all the time in the world. — Bill Perkins
I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this terrible devastation, people sitting in prison. I've been saved from prison, from death, and from heroine addiction. What am I going to do with that? — Luis J. Rodriguez
The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future. — Junior Seau
Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds. — Bernie Siegel
Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through. — Sylvia Plath
I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marveled at it. — Mariah Carey
This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen. — Vanilla Ice
I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life and/or what I am going through at that specific time. — Heather Headley
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it. — Helene Hanff
Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything. — J. K. Rowling
Ant Quotes
When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon. — Rumi
We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood. — U.G. Krishnamurti
I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can. — Jim Rohn
Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless. — Mikhail Tal
Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops. — Maya Angelou
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. — Guru Nanak
If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow. — David Suzuki
When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy. — Anthony Jeselnik
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. — Ezra Pound
I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people. — Abdullah Ocalan
I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior, but we are after all a mere part of the Creation. And we must continue to understand where we are. And we stand between the mountain and the ant, somewhere and there only, as part of the Creation. — Oren Lyons
All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong, life must have clean air, clear water and pure food. If deprived of these things, life will cycle to the next level, or as the system says, 'die'. — John Africa
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves... They do everything but watch television. — Lewis Thomas
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad. — Ramakrishna
If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game. — Joe Biden
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. — Sakya Pandita
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. — Saskya Pandita
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. — E. O. Wilson
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. — Miriam Makeba
Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first. — Clarence Day
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. — Joshua Harris
Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance. — James Brown
No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants. — Douglas Hofstadter
All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult? — Derrick Jensen
I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small! — Steven Wright
Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants. — Paul Halmos
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. — Karel Capek
Why let them order you about? Why let them tell you to hurry and scurry like ants or maggots? Take your time! Saunter a while! Enjoy the sunshine, enjoy the breeze, let life carry you at your own pace! Don't be slaves of time, it's a helluva way to die, slowly, by degrees...down with the Ticktockman! — Harlan Ellison
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. — E. O. Wilson
In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools — Alan Paton
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