49 Quotes About Pits

  • Author Ramana Maharshi
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    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.

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  • Author Jim Norton
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    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.

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

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  • Author Jodi Picoult
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    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.

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  • Author Arundhati Roy
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    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.

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  • Author Sun Ra
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    Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.

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  • Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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    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?'

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  • Author Patrick Swayze
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    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.

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  • Author Sada Thompson
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    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.

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