Top 100 Quotes About Pits
#1. There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#2. I should like to know if he has sunk a frigate, alone, with a Fleur-de-Nuit on his back; and as for distinction, my ancestors were scholars in China while his were starving in pits.
Naomi Novik
#3. The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer ...
Walt Whitman
#4. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.
Jonathan Swift
#5. She shuddered. Little frightened her as much as the unholy canines. But she did find it amusing that the souls of evil humans who had tortured animals and were sent to Sheoul-gra got to spend a lot of time in the pits with the beasts. She'd always loved the whole an-eye-for-an-eye thing.
Larissa Ione
#6. The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.
George Henry Lewes
#7. The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.
Horace
#8. Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.
Bill Shankly
#9. It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to human life against the sanctity of biodiversity, or family values against ecosystem services. There are infinite compatible reasons to love, cherish and steward Earth.
Alex Bruce
#10. The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?
Mark Ruffalo
#11. In the blackest pits, or emptiest of voids, there is always a guiding light; it's just up to us to find it.
Robert Storey
#12. This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder
#13. Like any city, we have assholes with pits who try to put on spur of the moment fights to make these cowards think they're tough guys. If they were so tough, they would do the fighting.
Laraine Lebron
#14. I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.' I don't own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I'd have to buy something to protect it then.
Norm MacDonald
#15. I don't see that as being good for America - that the country pits parents against everybody else.
Amelia Warren Tyagi
#16. I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.
Sebastian Vettel
#18. Damn him. Damn all good looking guys and their chin dimples and well-proportioned muscles and their hair that you want to touch so bad you can barely sit still.
Damn them all to the fiery pits of hell.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#19. Demodox folliculorum has eight stumpy legs and a tail, is about a third of millimeter long, and loves nothing more than to recline in the warm, oily pits of your hair follicles. Most adults have this mite, usually on the head and especially in eyelashes, and often in nipples.
Karl Shaw
#20. JESUS WILL LIFT you out of the deepest pit, but He will not lift you out of your easy chair.
Reinhard Bonnke
#21. Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
Toni Morrison
#22. God, fate was a sick, twisted bitch. Doomed. He was certainly and absolutely heading straight for the fiery pits of Hell, he realized, as he lusted for his sworn enemy, the vampire.
Marissa Clarke
#23. When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.
John Ridley
#24. The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.
Misha Glenny
#25. I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."
Roseanne Barr
#26. Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach.
Lisette Model
#27. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore. Eve
Rachel Caine
#28. Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates? You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above.
Francesca Marciano
#29. thighs flesh rather than steel, her groin matted from the moisture of their passion. Her face is dark, the sun behind her, but he sees red flames dying in the multifaceted pits of her eyes. She smiles and he sees sunlight glint on rows of metal
Dan Simmons
#30. Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.
("Out Of The Deep")
Walter De La Mare
#31. I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.
Mark Helprin
#32. Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.
Dale T. Mortensen
#33. This is the moment I realize that our traumas never really go away. They live inside of us, in the deepest darkest pits of our own tiny hells. Cocked and loaded, waiting for someone to come along and pull the trigger.
A. Zavarelli
#34. Then [the dinosaurs] sang me a song called, "Don't Go Down to the Tar Pits, Dear, Because I'm Getting Stuck on You.
Neil Gaiman
#35. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
Ramana Maharshi
#36. The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
Anita Hill
#37. My dad's idea of bonding was throwing me in the tar pits to teach me a lesson, though I'm not sure what the lesson was, except to stay the hell away from Da.
Kevin Hearne
#38. When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.
William O. Douglas
#39. The fascination of sleep, which pits the lure of the void against the obstinacy of an impotent will, is an obstacle that life has perhaps never surmounted.
Georges Bataille
#40. The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
Cole Porter
#41. Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
Oswald Chambers
#42. All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
Seneca The Younger
#43. Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
Elie Wiesel
#44. To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#45. We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.
Jackie Stewart
#46. You could scratch the itch of whatever sin you wanted: glory holes, gang bangs, girls on girls on guys. There were rooms for fetishes, and pits for fucking, and every tie-up, chain-down, in-the-air you could ask for. Especially
J.R. Ward
#47. Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.
Mary Jane Ward
#48. New York City isn't Chuck E. Cheese. We don't have ball pits for the kids to play in. We have titty bars and crack.
Jon Stewart
#49. Diversity, rather than cohesiveness, is the new passion, and it pits us against each other for "rights.
James C. Dobson
#50. Sometimes a stronger, more realistic faith is birthed in the darkest of pits.
Jo Ann Fore
#51. ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
Ambrose Bierce
#52. I stand corrected. Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell,
Rachel Caine
#53. Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.
Kurt Cobain
#54. That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits.
Andy Warhol
#55. Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time.
Mike Seabrook
#56. He frowned. "I knew being a vamp would be the pits."
Kylie rolled her eyes.
"I heard that," Della shouted.
"Can you hear this?" Lucas shot the bird toward the door.
C.C. Hunter
#57. Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.
Ben Shapiro
#58. I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides.
Lisi Harrison
#59. 'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.
Enoch Powell
#60. If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.
Paul Johnson
#61. This (Earth) is hell.
There are no fires, no burning pits of torment, no levels or rings or rivers of lava. When we die, we get put right back on earth to live our miserable existences over and over and over for all eternity.
Larissa Ione
#62. Everyone has different challenges, different needs and strengths. Choices have consequences, but I now think that, even in the pits and traps, the Lord can make a way through.
Kristen Heitzmann
#63. One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
Charles Brenton Huggins
#64. The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
Billie Holiday
#65. Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.
Augustus William Hare
#66. The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
Phil Donahue
#67. I thought of all that worked dark pits
Of war, and died
Digging the rock where Death reputes
Peace lies indeed.
Wilfred Owen
#68. Everyone needs to be skinny, but not too skinny. You need to be thick, but not fat. We're pretty much the pits, and I can't help but judge us, because nothing weight-related comes with anything but scorn.
Luvvie Ajayi
#69. Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.
David Lynch
#70. Her eyes were darkened pits of fury. She had become the spirit of vengeance itself, barely contained by human flesh.
S.M. Reine
#71. Where hard life makes some maudlin to the point of weeping at mere memory, it grants others a curious immunity to suffering. Like the slaves who work the charcoal pits, their skin grows hardened to the pinch of fire and coals, insensible to burning things.
R. Scott Bakker
#73. The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.
Samuel Johnson
#74. WHO MAKES THESE CHANGES? Who makes these changes? I shoot an arrow right. It lands left. I ride after a deer and find myself chased by a hog. I plot to get what I want and end up in prison. I dig pits to trap others and fall in. I should be suspicious of what I want. DROWNING
Jalaluddin Rumi
#75. If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.
Rumi
#76. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from; The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer, This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds.
Walt Whitman
#77. When things in the country are in the pits, start a war with somebody.
Vladimir Lorchenkov
#78. Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
John Arbuthnot
#79. The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death pits with guns in their hands. It would serve us well today to understand why. Both
Timothy Snyder
#80. I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.
Daniel Woodrell
#81. When you're in the pits, all the faith in the world won't get you out of it. But just a little faith in God will get you through it.
Ken Hutcherson
#82. There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
Alexander Pope
#83. Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits at the Chicago Board of Trade, Disney World, or oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.
Richard Dooling
#84. The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
Lucretius
#85. It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.
Desmond Tutu
#86. Butch: -I hear ya. No one's biz but yours. One question though
Vishous: -What
Butch: -When the females tie you down, do they paint your toe-nails and shit? Or just do your makeup? Wait ... they tickle your pits with feather, right?
J.R. Ward
#87. Shadrack rose and returned to the cot, where he fell into the first sleep of his new life. A sleep deeper than the hospital drugs; deeper than the pits of plums, steadier than the condor's wing; more tranquil than the curve of eggs.
Toni Morrison
#88. Tria finally slumped to the ground "I swear I'm sick of falling into pits and swamps..."
"Hey, upside is you're not dead yet so win win." Ingra said cheerfully.
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#89. What do you say when your friends come to visit and the dog starts humping their leg. Well, if it's a pit bull, you say, "You better let him finish."
Robert Schimmel
#90. A cascade of thousands of pomegranate pits fructify her from above and female hands maculate the goddess's body in the musical mists of mind-blowing nightly sex. But they won't fuck her, they will kill her.
Laura Gentile
#91. A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
Alexander Smith
#92. Jesus was born again in the pit of hell.. The church started when Jesus was born again in the gates of hell..
Charles Capps
#93. And I wanted to be as I had been yesterday, a boy again, without the heaviness of doubt, this pressing fear, this new treachery that lifted to realms of singing gold, and in a little space, flung to pits of night.
Richard Llewellyn
#94. How! leap into the pit our life to save?
To save our life leap all into the grave.
William Cowper
#95. Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.
Hans Christian Von Baeyer
#96. It was the kind of crying that comes from the pit of the stomach and brings a headache with it. The kind that makes a person snort and gasp, and no matter how idiotic you feel or how hard you try, you can't stop.
Robin Jones Gunn
#97. The Obama administration has refused to back down on the insurance mandate that needlessly pits health care against the rights of the religious ... This administration simply doesn't get it.
Rob Portman
#98. Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.
Theodore Dreiser
#99. Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.
W. Edwards Deming
#100. Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
Amos Bronson Alcott
