Pits Quotes - Page 8

• We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Space, Realization, Earth

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them.

  Anthony Crosland

  Running, Jobs, Democracy

  Speech in Rotherham, June 9, 1973.

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• Being thankful helps you to be present.People commit errors because they are not present.I would encourage women and men to be present - you'll avoid falling into certain pits.For instance, if you know that a person has just lost his wife or her husband or lover, it's unlikely that you will say something that will hurt that person's feelings if you're truly paying attention. You'll make a sweeter life for yourself and for those around you if you are present.

  Maya Angelou

  Hurt, Husband, Fall

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• All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hands, Let Down, Sin

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• My family worry for me because I'm gonna burn in an eternal pit of fire.

  Brad Pitt

  Fire, Worry, My Family

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• The night schedule is a crazy pit I fall into most of the time, but I do like it because the buzz of normal professionalism has gone away. Even though you're working, you feel like you're playing.

  Nate Lowman

  Crazy, Fall, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they're the closest you're going to get to normal people in the audience.

  Chris Rock

  Stars, People, Musician

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• The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

  Beth Moore

  Causes, Lost, Teach

  Beth Moore (2015). “Looking Up: Trusting God With Your Every Need”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• New York City isn't Chuck E. Cheese. We don't have ball pits for the kids to play in. We have titty bars and crack.

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Kids, Chuck E Cheese

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• Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach.

  Lisette Model

  Stomach, Subjects

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• The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.

  Mario Cuomo

  Self, Circles, Needs

  "Lend Me Your Ears Great Speeches in History". Book by William Safire, 1992.

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• It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.

  Julianna Margulies

  Running, Silly, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.

  Larisa Alexandrovna

  Men, Would Be, Psychotic

  "Bush’s Colon - Or the Neutering of Karl Rove". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2006.

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• Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates? You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above.

  Francesca Marciano

  Ties, Emotion, Unbound

  Francesca Marciano (1998). “Rules of the Wild”, Pantheon

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• Your interests will guide you. Give no concern to what they say you cannot do. Be willing to accept the challenge. Take time to retreat to that quiet place within the pit of your soul and unleash your right to decide what is best for you.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Giving, Challenges, Soul

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 03, 2015

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• I don't see that as being good for America - that the country pits parents against everybody else.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  Country, America, Parent

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

  Lucretius

  Way, Ruins, Hell

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• A lamp kept on mound illumines the area; if kept in a pit, it is as if it were not. A virtue that is practised is a lamp that shines for all; good thoughts and good deeds have a way of influencing others. The gems of wisdom, the light of intuitive experience should not be kept away from fellow - men. They have to be shared, even at the cost od one's life. That was the lesson Jesus taught and symbolised.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Jesus, Men, Light

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• IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique' to destroy the competition..... IBM digs a big HOLE in the ground and covers it with leaves. It then puts a big POT OF GOLD nearby. Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at all this gold, get over here fast.' As soon as the competitor approaches the pot, he falls into the pit

  John C. Dvorak

  Fall, Giving, Competition

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• 'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.

  Enoch Powell

  Elephants, Helping, Socialism

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• The chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads.

  Nick Hornby

  Sex, Dad, Fall

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.152, Penguin

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• That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits.

  Andy Warhol

  Fruit, Reason, Cherries

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• We were into the Speedway. We'd take a train out to the Speedway where farmers had flatbed trucks with bleachers on them. They'd park in the infield and we'd sit on those. Our heroes weren't the drivers, they were the pit crews. That's because we were local, and we knew what was going on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hero, Parks, Truck

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• I'm working on my house and playing with my fire pit and kind of just hanging around and making my home feel homey.

  Luke Grimes

  Home, Fire, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love metal songs about metal. That's one of my favorite things. Nobody does that any more. Nobody sings about how metal they are, or about their fans, or about how crazy their pits are.

  Brian Posehn

  Song, Crazy, Fans

  "Random Rules: Brian Posehn". Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2006.

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