Quotes About Quagmire

#1. My nature is a quagmire
of unresolved confessions.

Robert Creeley

#2. My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

James Joyce

#3. Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it ... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

Henrik Ibsen

#4. No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.

Donald Rumsfeld

#5. I don't think that the problems or the issues relate to any single piece of legislation. I think that they really do relate to the mindset that after eight years is pretty deeply embedded. It is not going to be easy to reverse itself.

Ted Gup

#6. It's the only way I know how to deal with Conan's BMS." "His what?" "Bitchy man syndrome,

H.P. Mallory

#7. We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

George Soros

#8. It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew ... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

Charlie Chaplin

#9. Under it all was quagmire.

Henning Mankell

#10. At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

Charles B. Rangel

#11. Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming something. Since theists are stuck with potentiality, it might as well be something like a quantum vacuum.

Taner Edis

#12. Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Jackie Chan

#13. all paperwork is, pardon my language, Ms Li, pestilential putrefaction designed to confound the real work of society in a quagmire of bullshit?

Kate Griffin

#14. So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn't drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there were men who were not neck-deep and sinking in the quagmire of the past.

Zadie Smith

#15. We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

Barack Obama

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

Sarah Vowell

#17. What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

Warren Buffett

#18. Congratulations to Ohio State, your new college football champions. Coach Urban Meyer may be the greatest football coach of all time. Don't confuse him with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. That's urban quagmire.

David Letterman

#19. Very lovely indeed
- Quigley responding to Violet's comment about the view, while actually looking at her.

Lemony Snicket

#20. Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!

Cheryl Strayed

#21. If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

Herodotus

#22. Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

Peter Schuyler

#23. The truth will set u free but first it will piss u off

Albert Borris

#24. It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake

Antonia Fraser

#25. I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)

Charles De Gaulle

#26. If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame.

Wilbert Rideau

#27. The entire empire has sunk into a quagmire of extravagance from which they cannot extricate themselves.

Liu Cixin

#28. MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.

Donald Clark

#29. Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.

Marisha Pessl

#30. Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

David Harvey

#31. I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

Lemony Snicket

#32. This edition of The Making of a Quagmire differs in a number of ways from the original one. Approximately one-third of the text has been cut in an effort to eliminate material that seemed clearly redundant or that did not relate directly to the Vietnam war.

David Halberstam

#33. Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.

T. J. Miller

#34. I never really did a western western.

John Malkovich

#35. Do you ever experience that psychological quagmire where you wonder if reality really is dreamland and what you presume to be your waking state, fantasy?
When

Phileena Heuertz

#36. Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof; don't choose. The moment you choose, you have fallen into the trap of the world, or into the trap of the mind.

Rajneesh

#37. I think our great task is to make certain that our young men and women in the military do not get sucked into never- ending, perpetual warfare within the quagmire of Syria and Iraq. And I will do my very best to make sure that that doesn't happen.

Hillary Clinton

#38. Everything that belongs to the past seems to have fallen into the sea; I have memories, but the images have lost their vividness, they seem dead and desultory, like time - bitten mummies stuck in a quagmire.

Henry Miller

#39. Hoover viewed the Dillinger case as a potential quagmire and long resisted being drawn into it.

Bryan Burrough