Pits Quotes - Page 14

• You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Word Of God, One Word

  Mahatma Gandhi (1957). “Christian Missions, Their Place in India”

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• I want people to feel something in the pit of their stomach. I want my movies, especially the ending, to stay with people long after the credits have rolled.

  Ruba Nadda

  Long, People, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone and get back up into my dressing room for the rest of my costume. I get snapped into all these things and layers and bundled up. I walk downstairs to the pit. Someone hands me my baton (which lights up like a wand) and I watch the first three minutes of the show. Then I come up out of the pit and there I am.

  Tituss Burgess

  Hands, Light, Shining

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The biggest obstacle facing girls is education, education, education. There are too many kids who think high school is a pit stop to fame and fortune. I want girls in this country to think education is the coolest, most important thing they could ever do in their lives.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Country, School

  Source: www.people.com

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• If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

  Paul Johnson

  Differences, Evil, Nazism

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• Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Catching On, Sharks, Frying Pans

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.23, Macmillan

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• He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

  Moshe Safdie

  Motivation, Fall, Inspiration

  Moshe Safdie (2009). “Moshe Safdie: Volume 1”, p.11, Images Publishing

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• In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'

  Kevin Barry

  Teenager, Kids, Cities

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• When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

  Patrick Swayze

  Bulls, Way, Talent

  "Patrick Swayze Joins Other Celebrities in Defending Mel Gibson", www.foxnews.com. August 7, 2006.

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• UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.

  John Major

  Mean, May, Limitless

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• When you're in the pits, all the faith in the world won't get you out of it. But just a little faith in God will get you through it.

  Ken Hutcherson

  World, Littles, Faith In God

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• Three features mark the Anglo-American system as different from all others. One is the extent to which our law is formed in litigation. Another feature is the way we conduct these cases: we pit antagonists against each other, to cast up from their struggles the material of decisions. A third- and largest in the public consciousness- is the trial by jury.

  Charles Rembar

  Struggle, Law, Decision

  Charles Rembar (2015). “The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Optimistic, Acting, Pessimistic

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Bulls, Half

  "Back to School With Walter Martin" by Matt Berninger, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2016.

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• That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Discovery, Cities, Interesting

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.

  Rumi

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.414, Delphi Classics

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• Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

  Toni Morrison

  Spring, Eye, World

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• When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

  Alice Walker

  Light, Self, Darkness

  Alice Walker (2010). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.196, The New Press

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• But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Sweet, Dark, Black

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• The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but record the worst of human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That's work enough for a lifetime.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Witty, Lying, Hands

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps and whatnot that show voice and make a book unique from all the other super shiny flat surfaces

  Lori Foster

  Book, Unique, Voice

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• Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My room's a mess, and I'm always losing things. I love music, but I can't sing a note. I'm clumsy and can barely sew a stitch. My sense of direction is the pits, and I can't tell left from right half the time. When I get angry, I tend to break things. Plates and pencils, alarm clocks. Later on I regret it, but at the time I can't help myself. I have no money in the bank. I'm bashful for no reason, and I have hardly any friends to speak of.

  Haruki Murakami

  Regret, House, Half

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• And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi

  Pain, Dark, Hands

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.303, Penguin

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• To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Land, Safety

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Snakes

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.51, Lulu.com

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