Quotes about swarms (13 Quotes)


    I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.






    The exhibition is not just about art, but about life. The ideas in the exhibition relate to so many aspects of everyday life, as well as animating works of art across a huge range of media. Swarms are not controlled by a central plan or leader they operate according to small local interactions, where individual agents don't have a picture of the global system, and yet they are building. This is like so much in our lives, from political movements and opinion-making to traffic jams and how crowds move.

    Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. . . . To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks . . . all lovely and loose and jingly.

    When I consider how little of a rarity children are that every street and blind alley swarms with them that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

    The odds are that they were killer bees because 99.9 percent of them up here are. That's not as dangerous as you might think. The behavior of swarms are a lot different than hives.


    I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.

    It's as if Fox clubbed a beehive, but didn't think about how he would protect himself from the angry swarms of bees, ... The state has the capacity to capture drug traffickers, but it does not have the resources to deal with the violence that followed because the police are the same, the prison systems are the same and the rest of the institutions are as weak as ever.




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