Beetle Quotes

44 quotes by 38 authors

Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation. — Archibald MacLeish
O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. — James Whitcomb Riley
The reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay billions for oil to people who hate us, but not drill our… — David Letterman
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous… — H P Lovecraft
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this… — Dr. Seuss
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to… — Barbara Kingsolver
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with… — Bruce Chatwin
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. — P.G. Wodehouse
One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and… — Charles Darwin
Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects… — Tony Hillerman
Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they… — Mercedes Lackey
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and… — Jack Kerouac
A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man â€” the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet. — Annie Dillard
We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one. — Jim Butcher
All I want to know is why a party of Fey wanted to kill me,â€ I said heatedly. The beetleâ€™s lips twisted enough to show… — Karen Chance
A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it… — Elizabeth Moon
It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy… — Joseph Conrad
My good lady,â€™ interrupted Clent, â€˜are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of… — Frances Hardinge

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