Flies Quotes - page 3

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. (Herman Melville)
Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens. View quote
Edward Young
Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. View quote
Victor Hugo
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. View quote
Frida Kahlo
Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth. View quote
Hans Christian Andersen
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window. View quote
Charles Dickens
Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable. View quote
Stanisław Lem
[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves. View quote
Henry Kissinger
Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator. View quote
Robert Orben
So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive. (William Joyce)
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us. View quote
Viktor Schauberger
The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward. View quote
Johannes Kepler
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh. View quote
Edward Abbey
The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees. View quote
Martin Luther
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
You are sweet, O Love, dear Love, You are soft as the nesting dove. Come to my heart and bring it rest As the bird flies home to its welcome nest. View quote
Paul Laurence Dunbar
It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out. View quote
Markus Zusak
No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in. View quote
Philip K. Dick
I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original. View quote
Brendan Fraser
Science flies men to the moon, religion flies men into buildings. (Victor J. Stenger)
When you get a groove going, time flies. View quote
Donald Fagen
I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed. View quote
Jeffrey Combs
A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence. View quote
Marc Racicot
Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer. View quote
Melville Fuller