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Tag Name "Pest" (27)

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The pest of society is egotists.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Shay Carl
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Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.
Steve Irwin
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I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results.
Sylvester Stallone
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He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.
William Blake
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What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.
Alan Chadwick
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It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!
Arthur Guiterman
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The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.
Charles Bukowski
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Golly, he's just a pest and your worst best friend, Who mend and rip space-time fabric like polyester blend.
Daniel Dumile
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Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
Helen Fisher
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Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He's done more than anyone else in the industry.
Joe Eszterhas
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One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed.
Marlo Thomas
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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.
Oscar Wilde
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No consideration at all is given to the interests of the pests - the very word pest seems to exclude any concern for the animals themselves. But the classification pest is our own, and a rabbit that is a pest is as capable of suffering, and as deserving of consideration, as a white rabbit who is a beloved companion animal.
Peter Singer
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Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest fools and the old world supplied them all.
Randolph Bedford
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My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
Steve Irwin
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Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.
Susan Orlean
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
Victor Hugo
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You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.
Anne, Princess Royal
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I am not a pest, Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
Beverly Cleary
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Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.
Claudius Claudianus
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I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
Franklin P. Adams
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Don't knock the power of a pest, Leif said. Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.
Maria V. Snyder
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