Swarm Quotes

59 Swarm quotes by 56 unique authors

How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such… — Saint Francis de Sales
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go… — Thomas More
A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next… — Lewis Thomas
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater… — H.G. Wells
For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a… — Soren Kierkegaard
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in… — David Wroblewski
2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and… — Charles Bukowski
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him! — Bram Stoker
I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking… — Christopher Fowler
Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by… — Leo Tolstoy
We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day… — Witold Gombrowicz
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their… — Yukio Mishima
The wand ricocheted through the swarm, thumping six, seven, eight of the little monsters before returning to Carter’s hand. “Not bad,” I said. “Keep it… — Rick Riordan
I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face,… — Khaled Hosseini
One thing," I said, when we had broken apart and the swirling feeling in my head subsided. "Maybe...don't tell your mom too much about this.… — Maureen Johnson
It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole… — Jerome K. Jerome
There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon… — Ray Bradbury
I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild… — Mahmoud Darwish
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons. — Khaled Hosseini
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness… — Milan Kundera
The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth] — Alan Moore
Don't buy society's definition of success. Because it's not working for anyone. It's not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working… — Arianna Huffington
Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from… — Ryan Holmes

Who Wrote These Swarm Quotes

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