Pitted Quotes

#1. The bus is full of German tourists in shorts so short that they required a Brazilian wax for the men as well as the women. There had been thighs as bountiful as baking bread, as wobbly as Jello, and as pitted as the surface of the moon.

Rob Thurman

#2. But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

Derek Bailey

#3. Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.

Stephen Spender

#4. The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?

C.S. Lewis

#5. Happiness is not a science, an art or an outcome. It can't be qualified, procured or consumed. It's not invented, but comes naturally made from mud, honeysuckle, pitted olives, and doting grand dads ... it's what we are when we are utterly ourselves in unaffected ease.

Karen Maezen Miller

#6. Bauer was a large, flat-topped man, with pale skin that had been acned and pitted so that it resembled a cob cleaned of corn, eyes the color of snuff, and the general expression of a natural-born straw boss.

Daniel Woodrell

#7. What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire?

Guy De Maupassant

#8. Cracked. The tub was as old as God and pitted. There

Carolyn Brown

#9. The pink sun tumbled from the sky like a shooting star, turning day to night in the space of a trembling breath. What rose in its place was a moon made of rotting meat, its vast surface pitted with crawling black mold, glowing in a starless sky.

Craig Schaefer

#10. subordinate groups are often pitted against one another in ways that draw attention away from the system of privilege that hurts them all.

Allan G. Johnson

#11. Insolence was spreading like butter across his red and pitted face.

Esme Ellis

#12. All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.

Steven Morrissey

#13. I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

Sylvester Stallone

#14. Here in the Outer City, life isn't linear like it is in the Dahn. Life is lived in fragments, scattered in the pitted and uneven, dirty streets. They're picked up as you get a chance, and dropped back to be trampled over when the Corporation gets in the way.

RaeLynn Fry

#15. Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

Shirley Maclaine

#16. Difficulties show men what they are.
In case of any difficulty,
remember that God has pitted you
against a rough antagonist
that you may be a conqueror,
and this cannot be without toil.

Epictetus

#17. You've got Bush and Gore headed to the Supreme Court. You've got George W. Bush's intelligence will be pitted against Al Gore's honesty. This is more like a case for small claims court.

Jay Leno

#18. The man was remarkably . . . well, homely. Ugly, not to put too fine a point on it. His face was deeply pitted with scars, obviously the victim of a terrible case of adolescent acne. He wore horn-rimmed glasses and had thinning brown hair, round shoulders, a pigeon chest.

Joseph Finder

#19. Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark ... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#20. Theologians pitted devotion and morality against belief, defining faith no longer as a way of life but rather as intellectual assent to certain creeds or confessions; their books were filled with "quarrelling, disputing, scolding, and reviling."38

Diana Butler Bass

#21. Murdered? Somebody murdered him?" Palmer was agog. A thin, soft man with a pitted nose and a bald, bumpy egg-shaped head dotted with dime-sized freckles, he was wearing jeans and a T-shirt that said, "NSA, Our Customer Service Pledge: You Talk, We Listen.

John Sandford

#22. But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.

Nenia Campbell

#23. It's not everyday that I am pitted against a woman with a proclivity for guns and things that go bump in the night- Noel in Dreamwalker

Andrea Heltsley

#24. Scriptures are not to be pitted against the Spirit. Scripture can be understood only through the same Spirit whereby it is given.31 The Scriptures, inspired by the Spirit, form the written rule by which the Spirit thereafter leads us into all truth.32

Thomas C. Oden

#25. America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.

Mother Teresa

#26. A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.

Vandana Shiva

#27. Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.

Daniel Dennett

#28. My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

Allison Pearson

#29. As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.

Bell Hooks

#30. Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

Hannah Simone

#31. I might have felt unimportant pitted against the awesome might of the mountains. I did not. Rather, on that mountain top I found something important that I had never known before: an awareness of a vital connection between me and the Authority behind all this beauty.

Catherine Marshall

#32. We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.

Barbara Mikulski

#33. In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish ... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.

Mike Dooley

#34. Neat little boys in neat little shirts, so earnest and wholesome, but hidden underneath their faces were old hags, skin pitted with acid.

Mariam Petrosyan

#35. Much more should have been achieved by a Labour Government in office and Labour pressure in opposition. Against the dogged resistance to change, we should have pitted a stronger will to change. I conclude that a move to the Left is needed.

Anthony Crosland

#36. I shared a compartment with a half-dozen muffled-up soldiers who had only arrived the day before, including an ill-favoured young Catalan whose pox-pitted cheeks sprouted stubble like a grave in May.

Laurie Lee

#37. Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

Elizabeth Berkley

#38. Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

Gary Weiss

#39. I just have to make it to the Tuichi' I mumbled to myself, 'I just have to make it to the Tuichi'.
Alone, deep in the jungle, so small and insignificant, pitted against nature, still I sensed someone was watching me. Or watching over me.Someone could see me, someone was providing for me

Yossi Ghinsberg

#40. The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#41. The divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

Steve Martin

#42. Experts don't apply rules, make decisions or solve problems.
They do what comes naturally, and it almost always works. When
they fail it often is because they are pitted against another
expert.

Robert J. Trotter

#43. I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.

Christopher Pike

#44. All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

James N. Frey

#45. Throughout his career, Jobs liked to see himself as an enlightened rebel pitted against evil empires, a Jedi warrior or Buddhist samurai fighting the forces of darkness. IBM was his perfect foil. He cleverly cast the upcoming battle not as a mere business competition,

Walter Isaacson

#46. Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

Margaret J. Wheatley