Mired Down Quotes

#1. I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in something we don't have any idea what to do [with].

Jim McDermott

#2. Memories, good and bad, can be used to help us heal if we don't let ourselves be mired down in them.

Sarah Jo Smith

#3. Trespass, the outdoor clothing company based in the South Side, is run by two of the nicest guys and proudest Glaswegians you could meet, Afzal and Akmal Khushi.

Nicola Sturgeon

#4. Only for us would unweird be weird.

Rachel Hawkins

#5. I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early ...

Harriet Martineau

#6. A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

#7. Altitude reduces all things to their relative proportions, and to the truth. Cares, remorse, disgust become strangers: How easily indifference, contempt, forgetfulness drop away ... and forgiveness descends.

Julian Barnes

#8. Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#9. The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise ...

William Safire

#10. When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.

R.T. Kendall

#11. Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely. Similarly, people with great projects afoot habitually look further and more clearly into the future than people who are mired in day-to-day concerns.

Robert Grudin