Quotes About Mire

#1. Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

William Shakespeare

#2. Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

Bruce Springsteen

#3. what use was it to observe the human species and try to understand it? Their rules were fathomless and no mire fixed than the wind

Sarah Perry

#4. spills of mire I swallowed inside the tower

Paul Celan

#5. If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.

Chuck Hagel

#6. Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

Charles Spurgeon

#7. But these are flowers that fly and all but sing:
And now from having ridden out desire
They lie closed over in the wind and cling
Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

Robert Frost

#8. Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

Emile Zola

#9. That scripture did also tear and rend my soul in the midst of these distractions, The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Isa. lvii. 20, 21.

John Bunyan

#10. A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

Samuel Johnson

#11. You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.

Robin Hobb

#12. The time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre

Jim Morrison

#13. Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word:
If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire
Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st
Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!

William Shakespeare

#14. Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.

Stephen Jay Gould

#15. Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out.

Max Lucado

#16. Some run the cliffs, and set upon an eagle's wings. Others mire in the den, and once within, can never leave again.

Chris Galford

#17. I'm especially interested in projects from authors who were always wonderful writers but who got stuck in the midlist mire due to the challenges of traditional publishing.

Teresa Medeiros

#18. The U.S. will never be a free and happy nation while they continue to exploit and marginalize the Third World. The Third World will never be happy or free so long as there is a First World stuck in the mire of consumerism, alienation, indifference. (Clodovis Boff, p. 161)

Mev Puleo

#19. Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

Michael K. Williams

#20. It's not good to stare too long at the Mire. It might look back.

Ilona Andrews

#21. Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

Jose Rizal

#22. The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires is narrow; set foot on it, and you see brambles and mire before you.

Zicheng Hong

#23. ennui - that dreaded mire of the human emotions.

Amor Towles

#24. But love? Who can say what is just a mire of dark needs and desires, and what is true love? Does such a thing exist? Can't it be that if we say, 'I love you' to another person and know that we mean it, then that is love, regardless of the motive?

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#25. Lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the very stars themselves. Let no man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because man is but your companion, your equal; man is your brother; he is not your Lord, he is not your sovereign master.

Marcus Garvey

#26. The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.

Douglas Adams

#27. I won a noble fame;
But with a sudden frown,
The people snatched my crown,
And, in the mire, trod down
My lofty name.

Theodore Tilton

#28. I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

Amanda Plummer

#29. Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.

Catulle Mendes

#30. Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

George Meredith

#31. Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

Vincent Van Gogh

#32. The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#33. Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation.

Francine Rivers

#34. Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity."
"FYI, philosophy bores me."
"Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

J.R. Ward

#35. At times it is so enjoyable to mire your neighbor into the filth you already got stuck in long ago!

Igor Eliseev

#36. Love is a flame to burn out human wills,
Love is a flame to set the will on fire,
Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.

John Masefield

#37. It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the mire of this world.

Philip Neri

#38. Choices makes us, choices made at mire proves a person to be righteous or evil. It depends on us to be vanquished or to stand indomitable to a predicament.

Prakash Guru

#39. It's a shame you prefer to wallow in a mire of ignorance when knowledge floats by within reach," Books said. "Isn't it?

Lindsay Buroker

#40. Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

Sri Aurobindo

#41. Politics is a foggy mire full of snakes.

Robert Jordan

#42. As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good and the beautiful in the world, or we may choose the trashy, the vulgar, the obscene, which will make us feel as though we've been 'wallowing in the mire.

David O. McKay

#43. Recall the cold
Of Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn,
Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpets
Shrilling into the ruck ; some trampled
Acres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet,
Stuck with strange-postured dead. Recall the wind's
Flurrying, darkness over the human mire.

Geoffrey Hill

#44. That bitter hour cannot be described: in truth, the waters came into my soul; I sank in deep mire: I felt no standing; I came into deep waters; the floods overflowed me.

Charlotte Bronte

#45. Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.

Danail Hristov

#46. To pull a friend out of the mire, don't hesitate to get dirty.

Baal Shem Tov

#47. God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

Henry George

#48. America, like a few other nations, has become characteristic for the depth of the abyss that divide a handful of brutal millionaires who are stagnating in a mire of luxury, and millions of laboring starving men and women who are always staring want in the face.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#49. Don't mire up in self despair of your losses, learn from them and move on to other good things in life. Don't stop allowing the sunshine in because of the fear that winter will come and engulf the warmth. Hold it close to you to help you through those cold winter days.

Belinda Taylor On "Loss"

#50. I believe that we are all born for greatness yet most of us mire in the mediocrity of life. We become complacent or worse, discouraged and stagnate. We damn ourselves by not progressing.

Toni Sorenson

#51. Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

George Meredith

#52. What else is God good for other than a distraction from the mire we're all stranded in?

Hannah Kent

#53. But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.

Isaiah

#54. Struck in the wet mire
Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city
I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.

Allen Tate

#55. Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Edmund Burke

#56. We must accept the capitalistic stage in social evolution as about on a par with the earlier monkey stage. The human had to pass through those stages in its rise from the mire and slime of low organic life. It was inevitable that much of the mire and slime should cling and be not easily shaken off.

Jack London

#57. American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

Sarah Vowell