Top 39 Quotes About Quagmire
#1. My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
James Joyce
#2. Hoover viewed the Dillinger case as a potential quagmire and long resisted being drawn into it.
Bryan Burrough
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.
David Harvey
#9. 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
#10. MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.
Donald Clark
#11. The entire empire has sunk into a quagmire of extravagance from which they cannot extricate themselves.
Liu Cixin
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. My nature is a quagmire
of unresolved confessions.
Robert Creeley
#17. 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
#18. No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.
Donald Rumsfeld
#19. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.
Sarah Vowell
#28. Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
T. J. Miller
#30. 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
#31. The truth will set u free but first it will piss u off
Albert Borris
#32. If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
Herodotus
#34. Very lovely indeed
- Quigley responding to Violet's comment about the view, while actually looking at her.
Lemony Snicket
#35. 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
#36. Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
Jackie Chan
#37. 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
#38. It's the only way I know how to deal with Conan's BMS." "His what?" "Bitchy man syndrome,
H.P. Mallory
#39. 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
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