Quotes and Sayings About Pits
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.
-- Aleister Crowley -
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
-- Alexander Pope -
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
-- Anita Hill -
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Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
-- Ariana FranklinSource : Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.90, Penguin
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Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
-- Barry McGuiganSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.
-- Bill Shankly -
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The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
-- Billie Holiday -
I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
-- Bryan Adams -
We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.
-- Bucky SinisterSource : Bucky Sinister (2008). “Get Up: A 12-step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos”, p.39, Conari Press
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My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?
-- Cee Lo Green -
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One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
-- Charles Brenton Huggins -
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
-- Cole Porter -
No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
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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 -
Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.
-- David Mitchell -
It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.
-- Desmond Tutu -
Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.
-- Dolores Hitchens -
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It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.
-- Earl Campbell -
In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em!
-- Edgar Wallace -
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
-- Edward Bond -
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 WrightSource : Evan Wright (2005). “Generation Kill”, p.22, Penguin
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I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.
-- Geri Halliwell -
Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.
-- Graham JoyceSource : "Sometimes a Great Notion". Book by Graham Joyce, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 1964.
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The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.
-- Horace -
Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.
-- Ivan Turgenev -
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Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.
-- J. A. Baker -
I'm not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It's there sitting dormant. I'll know it when I see it.
-- J.A. Redmerski