Pits Quotations

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

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.

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.

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.

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

They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

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

My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the ’70s they blamed Dobermans, in the ’80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the ’90s they blamed the Rottweiler. Now they blame the Pit Bull.

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

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.

It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'

He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

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

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.

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when youre depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

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.

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.

Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.

When you're in the pits, all the faith in the world won't get you out of it. But just a little faith in God will get you through it.

I was often in the pit lane the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

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

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

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.

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.

I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.' I don't own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I'd have to buy something to protect it then.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

Law is a bottomless pit.

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

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.

There's just a pit that develops in your stomach and doesn't go away. It's the championship pit, and it's there.

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.

The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.

The funniest people I know always seem to be the ones surrounded by darkness. And that’s probably why they’re the funniest. The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.

This one looks good,” said Chong over breakfast the next morning. Benny read out loud from the paper. “‘Pit Thrower.’ What’s that?” “I don’t know,” Chong said with a mouth full of toast. “I think it has something to do with barbecuing.” It didn’t.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

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.

In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.

There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio and television coverage of politics doesn't see its role as a mission to explain, but to destroy, in a pernicious culture in which journalists pit themselves against politicians.

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.

Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.

I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.

I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.

When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me.

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all,

I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

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.

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.

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.

Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.

If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.

Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.

How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.