Quotes by Gnats There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila. Alfred Sturtevant nomenclaturegnatsscience There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. C. S. Lewis gnatscivilizationart There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. C. S. Lewis gnatsordinarypeople There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. C. S. Lewis gnatspeoplereligion As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could understand would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite. If we could understand Him, He could not be divine. Charles Spurgeon gnatsoceanwould-be If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?' Coventry Patmore gnatslaughtersoul As the moths around a taper, Elizabeth Barrett Browning gnatsdrinkingrose Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy. Ernest Rutherford gnatstryingnight Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart. Fred Allen gnatstwoart Television is a triumph of equipment over people. Fred Allen gnatstriumphpeople Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers. Friedrich Nietzsche gnatsthievescriminals You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work. Gene Simmons gnatsinspirationalmean We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers. Friedrich Nietzsche gnatsdarknessorder Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable. Henry David Thoreau gnatsmenscience Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. Jean de La Fontaine gnatsexampleknowledge If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that. John Donne gnatscreepsgod Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. John Muir gnatsplaypeople Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly through the air? You are no better than a gnat. Conquer your heart-then you may become somebody. Khwaja Abdullah Ansari gnatsairheart 'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied. Lewis Carroll gnatsnamesscience With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack. Michael Gove gnatspacestruggle12»
