Pits Quotes - Page 12

• He who can traverse the pit of darkness will emerge a stronger, more compassionate person.

  Martin Israel

  Darkness, Experience, Stronger

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• A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

  King James I

  Sports, Eye, Cigarette Smoke

  "A Counterblaste to Tobacco". 1604.

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• If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

  Tisha Venturini

  Benches, Quiet, Ifs

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• I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy enough, I also wrestled a greased pig in a mud pit.

  Shandi Finnessey

  Crazy, Lakes, Jumping

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• Last year was the best Father's Day ever, 1,000th win for Ford and to have my daughter there for her first victory lane. I'm not sure how to top that, but hopefully something spectacular will happen. Michigan is one of my favorite tracks; it's a big fast place and has lots of room to race. There is always a lot of strategy going on. Fuel mileage and pit stops are very important.

  Greg Biffle

  Daughter, Father, Winning

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• Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

  Elie Wiesel

  Baby, Burning, Want

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• At the pit's bottom is no anger.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Anger, Bottom, No Anger

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.62, Penguin

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• Law is a bottomless pit.

  John Arbuthnot

  Law, Lawyer

  'The History of John Bull' (1712) ch. 24

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• War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other similarly poor, or disadvantaged humans, for nothing but the greed of the few. Only we the people can make war obsolete by not participating in the profound crimes of the profiteers and other war mongers.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Class, People

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• Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gatherings, washed, combed, and in their Sunday best.... They are hirsute, low-browed, big-faced persons of obviously low mentality... They simply look out of place in black clothes and stiff collar, since clearly they belong in skins, in wattled huts at the close of the Great Ice Age. These ox-like men are descendants of those who always stayed behind.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Sunday, Men, Clothes

  "The Old World in the New". Book by Edward Alsworth Ross, edition.cnn.com. 1914.

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• Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook compassion, seeing it as merely a pit stop on the way to more advanced practices. We want something more; we don't even know what. But that's just a trick of our mind. One of the greatest teachings is to practice compassion.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Sympathy, Buddhist, Disappointment

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• It`s an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement , it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.

  Mark Foley

  Corruption, Abomination, Absolutes

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• Don't be polite.
  Bite in.
  Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.
  It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.
  You do not need a knife or fork or spoon.
  For there is no core
  or stem
  or rind
  or pit
  or seed
  or skin
  to throw away.

  Eve Merriam

  Running, Knives, Skins

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• I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

  Daniel Woodrell

  World, Born, Margins

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• Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time.

  Mike Seabrook

  Golf, Player, Games

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• Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

  Luther Allison

  Guy, Steel, Skinny

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• The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

  Misha Glenny

  Age, Desire, Demand

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• To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.

  Rider Strong

  Fall, Character, Opportunity

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• When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

  Edward Bond

  Humanness Is, Differences, People

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• A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half Poodle. He claimed that it wasn't much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Men, Gossip

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• There is no difference between sitting around the pit watching dogs fight and sitting around a summer barbecue roasting the corpses of tortured animals or enjoying the dairy or eggs from tortured animals.

  Gary L. Francione

  Summer, Dog, Fighting

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• We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

  Evan Wright

  Military, America, Bulls

  Evan Wright (2005). “Generation Kill”, p.22, Penguin

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• Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Life, Confused, Heart

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• But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Dark, Expecting Something In Return, Please Me

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• Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.

  Frank Scoblete

  Gambling, Law, Sky

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