Pit Quotes
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There still remains, to mortifya wit, The many-headed monster of the pit.
Alexander Pope— 1737 Imitations of Horace, bk.2, epistle1, l.304-5.
If our intention had been merely to bring back a handful of soil and rocks from the lunar gravel pit and then forget the whole thing, we would certainly be history's biggest fools.
wernher von braun— Speech, 15 July 1969, quoted in "Of a Fire on the Moon", Norman Mailer 1970
There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong, if a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut, if he bets wrong, he loses, if the gov bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money, it's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press.
peter schiff— Authors@Google: Peter Schiff (2009)
Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
william wordsworth— The Recluse, line 788 (1805).
Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.
david gemmell— Ch. 10 (The King Beyond the Gate)
Specific types of Kundas are recommended for different kinds of Yagnas....A pit for sacrificial fire or a pot ( altar ) or small reservoir/clay-structure (made up on the ground in which the Yagna fire is lit.
— In p.9 (The Integrated Science of Yagna)
You think this cruel? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. Let peals of laughter,Codrus! round thee break, Thou unconcerned canst hear the mighty crack. pit, box, and gallery in convulsions hurled, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world.
Alexander Pope— 1735 'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.83-8.
The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach.
— 1933 'The Name and Nature of Poetry', Lecture at Cambridge, 9 May.
Headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of heaven, eternal wrath Burnt after them to the bottomless pit.
john milton— 1665 Pursued to the wall of Heaven by the Messiah, Satan and his rebelling angels fall to their punishment as the wall opens. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.6, l.864-6.
Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man My haunt, and the main region of my song.
william wordsworth— "The Excursion", preface, lines 35-41 (1814).
He who digs a pit for his brother shall fall into it; and he who sets up traps shall be caught in them.
ahiqar— 7:58 (The Story of Ahikar)
The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
jonathan edwards— Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, sermon delivered in Enfield, Connecticut (July 8, 1741)
I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?
geronimo— On being informed that there were authorizations to kill him while he was a prisoner in San Antonio, prior to news of further instructions to transport him to Florida, as quoted in Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars (1990), by Charles Leland Sonnichsen, p. 102; "Usen" is the Apache word for God, and "Nantan" thier word for a leader, spokesman, or "chief".
'Twould ring the bells of HeavenThe wildest peal for years,If Parson lost his sensesAnd people came to theirs,And he and they togetherKnelt down with angry prayersFor tamed and shabby tigersAnd dancing dogs and bears,And wretched, blind, pit ponies,And little hunted hares.
Ralph Hodgson— "The Bells of Heaven", p. 25.
The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read. Instead of which, they’re all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.
aravind adiga— The Seventh Night
If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.
larisa alexandrova— Bush's Colon - Or the Neutering of Karl Rove.
In short order they fell into the same pit as their rivals, who had for decades ignored the plain and simple fact that to a starving man “freedom” implies a full rice-bowl or, if he has an exceptional imagination, a healthy ox to pull his plough. It has nothing to do with voting for a political delegate.
john brunner— context (8) “Isolation”
Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just wishful thinking and wanton fabrication cast over a bottomless pit of ignorance . To explain their occult and mystical experiences , magicians are forced to develop models beyond the scope of materialistic or religious systems .
peter j. carroll— p. 151 (Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987))
How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies, I give thanks For a new relish, careless to inquire My pleasure's pedigree, if so it please, Nobly, I mean, nor renegade to art. The Grecian gluts me with its perfectness, Unanswerable as Euclid , self-contained, The one thing finished in this hasty world, Forever finished, though the barbarous pit, Fanatical on hearsay, stamp and shout As if a miracle could be encored.
james russell lowell— The Cathedral, st. 9.
I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.
john major— Nicholas Wood and Michael Prescott, "Major threatens general election if he fails to win Maastricht vote", Sunday Times, 25 October 1992.
"Mr McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years, Anyone [in his place] would go nuts."
vladimir putin— Response to John McCain's tweet "Dear Vlad, The Arab Spring is coming to a neighbourhood near you." [28]
Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Demogorgon, Act IV, l. 562–569.
What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
— 12:11–12 (KJV) Said to the Pharisees.
Law is a bottomless pit.
— John Arbuthnot, title of a pamphlet (c. 1700)
“Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted. LET them be. Blind guides is what they are. If, then, a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
— 15?13-14, New World Translation
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.
james i of england— James I of England, A Counterblaste to Tobacco (1604).
Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.
sun myung moon— Sun Myung Moon, The Way of God's Will, translated 1980
