The pest of society is egotists.

He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.

Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

I don't have too many pests. My concept is this: I manage myself, and there's nothing wrong with people having managers.

Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

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.

Genetically modified foods are really just better crops. They're more nutritious. They're more resistant to drought, pests, and that sort of thing.

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

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.

New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

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.

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

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