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.
An'now, auld Cloots, I ken ye're thinkan, A certain Bardie's rantin, drinkin, Some luckless hour will send him linkan, To your black pit; But faith! he'll turn a corner jinkan, An'cheat you yet.
Robert Burns— 1786 'Address to the Deil', stanza 20.
I waited patiently for the L, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Bible (Old Testament)— ORDPsalms 40:1-2.
Hethat diggetha pit shall fall intoit; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Bible (Old Testament)— Ecclesiastes10:8.
The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish.
arthur balfour— The Foundations of Belief (1895).
"If you choose to visit the bottomless pit, I won't go with you - we must part company, for I swear I'll not move another step towards it!"
anne brontë— Lord Lowborough (Ch.XXII : Traits of Friendship)
"There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing."
josé luis rodríguez zapatero— Note: Dinner speech at which Zapatero was the guest of honour, hosted by Felipe Calderón in the National Palace, Mexico City.
— Source: Transcripción oficial en la web de la Presidencia de México
I was often in the pit lane the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.
murray walker— The Evening Standard Staff (June 21, 2007) "Evening Standard: F1 made me deaf, says Walker", The Evening Standard.
And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned away their faces and said Our kingdom is not as the kingdom of this world Our life on earth is but a pilgrimage The soul lives on humility and patience at the same time screwing from the poor their last centime They settled down among their treasures and ate and drank with princes and to the starving they said Suffer Suffer as he suffered on the cross for it is the will of God
peter weiss— Marat, act 1, scene 13 (p. 28)
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm— Ch. 4 (Escape from Freedom (1941))
He offers a handshake, crooked five fingers They form a pattern yet to be matched On the surface simplicity But the darkest pit in me is pagan poetry
björk guðmundsdóttir— "Pagan Poetry", from Vespertine (2001)
His eye a ring inside a ring inside a ring That leers up, joyless, vile, in meek obscenity This is the devil. Flesh to flesh, he bleats The herd back to the pit of being.
Randall Jarrell— "The Knight, Death and the Devil," lines 17-20
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.
— Proverbs, XXVI. 27. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 670.
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Horace, Epistle I, Book II, line 30.
A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge . I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in.
— Dave Matthews, in Alan Light Dave Matthews: Conscience and Craft, msn Entertainment News
And He shall smite the wicked, and plunge them into the fiery pit!
— Who: Claude Frollo
— Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
— Note: Said moments before the character, a religious bigot and villain of the story, plunges to his death into a lake of molten lead, weighted down by a gargoyle, which appeared to roar in his face shortly before breaking off with him clinging to the underside.
He offers a handshake, crooked five fingers They form a pattern yet to be matched On the surface simplicity But the darkest pit in me is pagan poetry
— Björk, "Pagan Poetry", from Vespertine (2001).
Oh, how often our all-wise Master puts us into a deep pit ot trial, to subdue our pride, or to tame our passions, or to break our stubborn self-will. Blessed is he who can look up into the countenance of Jesus, and honestly say: " Master, my rebellious self is dead, that Thou mayest live in me, and that 1 may live for Thee and Thee alone."
— Theodore L. Cuyler, p. 586. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it.
— King James Bible Proverbs 26:27,
Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better.
— Act IV, scene 2, line 71.
Life is inherently ambiguous; baseball games pit pure good against abject evil. Even Saddam Hussein must have committed one act of kindness in his life, but what iota of good could possibly be said for aluminum bats or the designated hitter rule?
— Stephen Jay Gould, in "Baseball and the Two Faces of Janus", p. 272; originally published as "The Virtues of Nakedness" in The New York Review of Books (11 October 1990)
Food for powder, food for powder; they’ll fill a pit, as well as better.
— Falstaff, scene ii
Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' pit; For the day never comes when it'll du To kick on dooty like a worn-out shoe.
james russell lowell— James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers (1848), No. 11.
