Pits Quotes - Page 5

• There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Lonely, Zoos, Men

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• I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack

  Lisa Kleypas

  Years, Long, Amanda

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• Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

  William S. Burroughs

  Crazy, Fool, Ill

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• Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge

  Cormac McCarthy

  War, Heart, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.349, Pan Macmillan

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• The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

  Rachel Cohn

  Lying, Answers, Infinite

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• I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wall, Iron, Burning

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories - Purloined Letter, Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Black Cat, Fall of the House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death and Many More”, p.255, Lulu Press, Inc

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• That was a frustrating race for me. I pushed as hard as possible at the start on the medium tyres whilst everyone around me was on the grippier soft compound rubber. Once I moved to the soft tyres I was able to set the race's then fastest lap so things looked good with our strategy. Unfortunately the engine anti-kill triggered when I came in to make my final pit stop which cost me a lot of time. It's frustrating as we should have finished strongly. My focus is now Barcelona where I've delivered very strongly in the past.

  Pastor Maldonado

  Past, Race, Should Have

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• Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

  Marco Rubio

  Leader, President, Today

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• All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for?

  C.S. Friedman

  Sex, Fear, Men

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• The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3033, Delphi Classics

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• My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

  Thomas Hood

  Dog, Book, Reading

  Thomas Hood (1860). “Memorials of Thomas Hood, 2: Illustrated with Copies from His Own Sketches”, p.154

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• It was the kind of crying that comes from the pit of the stomach and brings a headache with it. The kind that makes a person snort and gasp, and no matter how idiotic you feel or how hard you try, you can't stop.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Trying, Matter, Kind

  Robin Jones Gunn (2011). “Christy Miller Collection”, p.15, Multnomah

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• My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Brother, Father, Men

  Jesmyn Ward (2011). “Salvage the Bones: A Novel”, p.277, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.

  Thomas Boston

  Hands, Hell, Mythology

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• I think if Jesus had one shot at fixing us, He’d tell us how much He loves us. Jesus loves us right now, just as we are. He isn’t standing aloof, yelling at us to climb out of our pits and clean ourselves up so we can be worthy of Him. He is wading waist-deep into the muck of life, weeping with the broken, rescuing the lost, and healing the sick.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Healing, Thinking

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus is: Find a New Way to be Human”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

  Ezra Pound

  Work, Night, Views

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.57, Delphi Classics

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• ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Records, Politics, Rats

  Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.20, See Sharp Press

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• Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.

  Christopher Meloni

  Hate, Guy, Trying

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• [The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Feet, Imagination, Inspire

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• The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Discovery, Vices, Reform

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.411, Library of America

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• We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Believe, Dwelling, Long

  Oliver Heaviside (1893). “Electromagnetic Theory”

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• We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Touching, Mediocrity, States

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• I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court romance. But I never pictured anything as poor as this village. This is the pits. There's no romance here, definitely no chivary. And it stinks--of sweat and smoke and sewage.

  Marianne Curley

  Years, Sweat, Romance

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• We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

  China Mieville

  Love You, Animal, Men

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• Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.

  Ben Elton

  Lying, Jealous, Unrequited Love

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