Digging Quotes - Page 13

• Pray for rain while digging a well.

  Stephen King

  Rain, Praying, Wells

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• Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.

  Carl Jung

  Rivers, Water Of Life, May

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• If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and are digging deeper than they used to and understanding more abrasive and complex music and art. It's like being around an unfamiliar language long enough that it eventually begins to make sense.

  Jacob Bannon

  Art, Long, Understanding

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.

  Ricky Gervais

  Breathe, Yeah, Audience

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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• Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

  Joan Crawford

  Fashion, Acting, Actresses

  "How to Be a Working Actor, 5th Edition: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film & Television". Book by Mari Lyn Henry, Lynne Rogers, p. 41, July 7, 2010.

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• . . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Book, Daily Activities, Cooking

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt.

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Thinking, Egypt

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.142, Penguin UK

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• There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

  Mitch Albom

  Bye, Doe, Hello

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• If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.

  Mortimer Adler

  Book, Reading, Understanding

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• What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Teaching, Writing, Caring

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• I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, House

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.

  Brian Setzer

  Heart, Mean, Sides

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• I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help. The lateral idea is when you skip over and dig someplace else.

  Seymour Chwast

  Motivational, Ideas, Helping

  Seymour Chwast (1985). “The left-handed designer”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• The
  trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start
  digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something
  will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something.

  Debbi Fields

  Treasure, Enough, Tricks

  Debbi Fields, Alan Furst (1987). “"One smart cookie": how a housewife's chocolate chip recipe turned into a multimillion-dollar business--the story of Mrs. Fields cookies”, Simon & Schuster

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• We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Treasure, Hidden Treasure

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.100, Editora Dracaena

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• God is not merely at your fingertips but within your grasp. Live each day like a child digging through an antique treasure chest rifling for the next discovery. Open your arms and your eyes to the God who stands in plain sight and works miracles in your midst. Look for him in your workdays and weekends, in your meeting-filled Mondays and your lazy Saturdays. Search for him in the snowy sunsets and Sabbaths, seasons of Lent and sitting at your table. Pray for—and expect—wonder. For when you search for God, you will discover him.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Monday, Children, Sunset

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• Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  William Moulton Marston

  Work, Taken, Butterfly

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• As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the path. For a moment he was baffled. It seemed to have no agricultural purpose; there was no more planting or ploughing to be done. Then he realized what it was. They were digging a mass grave. He thought of shouting an order to about turn or at least to avert their eyes, but they were almost on it, and some of them had already seen their burial place. The songs died on their lips and the air was reclaimed by the birds.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Song, Eye, Men

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• RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Purpose, Truce, Suspension

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.194, University of Georgia Press

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• Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

  Carl Edwards

  Work Out, Proof, Don't Lose Hope

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• There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.

  Chellie Pingree

  Garden, Knitting, Phones

  "What I've Learned: Representative Chellie Pingree (D, Maine)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 26, 2010.

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• My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

  Blythe Danner

  Stuff, Theory, Deeper

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• I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'

  David S. Goyer

  Games, Thrones, Justified

  "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.

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• I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.

  Ziggy Marley

  Justice, Balance, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have to get children to understand that not only do they have this incredible uniqueness, but they also have something that sometimes we forget about. They are also potentiality. They are much more undiscovered than they are discovered. And there's the wonder of it. It doesn't matter where they are, they're only just beginning and the big magical trip of life is digging it all out and discovering the wonderful you.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Children, Matter, Sometimes

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