Pitfall Quotes

#1. The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

Horace

#2. Poor bird! Thou 'dst never fear the net nor lime, The pitfall nor the gin.

William Shakespeare

#3. A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

Nelson Shanks

#4. The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Gene Simmons

#5. The biggest pitfall as you make your way through your life is impatience.

Susan Jeffers

#6. Another pitfall: Utilitarianism is interested only in making the majority of people happy. It is concerned with the happiness of the many, not the misery of the few, which is fine if you are lucky enough to be among the happy many, but not so fine if you find yourself among the miserable few.

Eric Weiner

#7. You're only famous in the eyes of others. Inside, you're still the same, and not a hundred million records or TV shows can change that. I think the only pitfall of fame is believing that it means something, and behaving like that.

Jamie Cullum

#8. One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.

David Crane

#9. avoid the common business pitfall of making business decisions based on the company's skill set rather than on the customers' needs and desires.

Jeofrey Bean

#10. On the contrary, knowing I AM inspires us to excel in every area of life. Further, the power of this "I am not" message is that when we compete, and hopefully win, we can avoid the pitfall of gaining the whole world and yet losing our souls.2 As

Louie Giglio

#11. He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. I always say, "Never give your lead character an infant. Make them a recovering alcoholic, or the victim of a horrible violent crime because you can really never truly recover from that." It's a story pitfall.

Julie Plec

#13. The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

Agnes Repplier

#14. Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

Alexander Payne

#16. The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

Agnes Martin

#17. My grandfather was sparing in his praise of apprentices. My grandfather insisted we think for ourselves and achieve for our own satisfaction. Deep study of the mysteries were their own tough path, he always said. To live for the approval of others was a pitfall that begged a false turning.

Janny Wurts

#18. Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.

Jennifer Grey

#19. Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#20. IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography,

Jeff Wall

#21. That's another pitfall of reductionism: Until scientists have the means to isolate and measure things, they insist those things don't and can't exist, and anyone who says otherwise is ignorant an superstitious.

T. Colin Campbell

#22. Like the ocean, never forget to be generous with your love.

Debasish Mridha

#23. I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#24. Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.S. Cole and bombed several U.S. embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. We knew who did it, but we didn't go after them. Instead, we beefed up security at our embassies and changed the Navy's rules of engagement. It only served to embolden Al Qaeda.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#25. You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Lydia M. Child

#26. [Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.

Martin Nolan