Parasite Quotes

63 Parasite quotes by 55 unique authors

Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth. — Ann Wilson
If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human… — Ayn Rand
Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have as yet obtained… — Ronald Ross
The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually bursts… — Marston Bates
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none. — Andrew Carnegie
Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and… — Harry Browne
To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding… — Tehmina Durrani
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love. — Henri Matisse
Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to… — Russell Crowe
The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite. — L. E. J. Brouwer
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks 'Where's my share?' A man creates, a parasite says… — Andrew Ryan
Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to ban. — Andrew Ryan
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If… — Khalil Gibran
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV… — Boris Johnson
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million,… — D. H. Lawrence
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. — Arthur Schopenhauer
When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. — Anthony Trollope
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out… — Felix Dennis
Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation… — Paul Stamets
Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There… — Robert A. Heinlein
He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with… — W. Somerset Maugham
Come on, Forney.' Novalee, it's a parasite.' But it's a tradition.' It's a parasite! And you expect people yo stand under it and kiss?' Yes!… — Billie Letts
What hostile parasite is tunneling through her sphincter? (Zarina) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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