Quotes About Being Pinned Down

#1. For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.

Tim Cahill

#2. The United States has never been afraid of a challenge. In times of crisis, it is American innovation and ingenuity that has forged the path to progress and prosperity.

Diana DeGette

#3. I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

Dalai Lama

#4. He that seeketh anything else but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.

Thomas A Kempis

#5. Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.

Samuel Rutherford

#6. Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

Stephan Pastis

#7. While there is always someone more attractive, your goal should be to present yourself as the most intriguing.

Keith Grafman

#8. I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#9. Take your happiness where you find it, children, and don't ask too many questions. Life is too short and uncertain to do otherwise.

Jacqueline Carey

#10. The sun always shines above the clouds.

Paul F. Davis

#11. We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.

Satish Kumar

#12. If you want to be free to serve Jesus, there's no question - stay single. Marriage takes a lot of time. But if you want to become more like Jesus, I can't imagine any better thing to do than to get married. Being married forces you to face some character issues you'd never have to face otherwise.

Gary L. Thomas

#13. Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

Alan Moore

#14. the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige.

John Jackson Miller

#15. Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.

Kristin Davis

#16. Who wasn't squatting in one of the handful of prefabricated subject positions proffered by capital or whatever you wanted to call it, lying every time she said "I"; who wasn't a bit player in a looped infomercial for the damaged life?

Ben Lerner