Dung Fly Quotes & Sayings

There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts. — Adyashanti

By two o'clock in the morning they had each drunk three brandies, and he knew, in truth, that he was not the man she was looking for, and he was glad to know it. "Bravo, lionlady," he said when he left. "We have killed the tiger. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There is more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks [to humanity]. — Nick Bostrom

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass. — Milan Kundera

When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And I nourished him as a hill of dung nourishes a fly, and when he had eaten his fill he left me.
Jordan ...
I should have named him after a stagnant pond and then I could have kept him, but I named him after a river and in the flood-tide he slipped away. — Jeanette Winterson

A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth
either epileptic or dead. — Jean Baudrillard

I know, Mum. So what did you call for?' 'Well... just quickly. When you have a second, can you please send me some Bejeweled Blitz coins? — K.M. Golland

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love. — Robert Hugh Benson