Ratholes Quotes

#1. There is something universal about being stood up in a city restaurant between one and two - a spiritual no-man's-land, whose blasted trees, entrenchments, and ratholes we all share, disarmed by the gullibility of our hearts.

John Cheever

#2. That's the way it is with Appian; things that appear ridiculous on average just might have happened, so they cannot be entirely dismissed.

Robert L. O'Connell

#3. It was a long corridor and it branched into other corridors and it led her up short flights of steps which mounted to others again. There

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#4. I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.

Natalie Cole

#5. Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#6. Make someone else do it... and the job is done"
The shouty man. (Jim Howick)Horrible Histories.

C.G. Hassack

#7. To protect myself from the rear, I have to stand slantwise.

Lu Xun

#8. Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

Barry Humphries

#9. I look out through the eyeholes and feel exactly the way Michael Jackson's son Blanket must have felt

John Waters

#10. And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

Alexandra Ripley

#11. In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#12. When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.

Pema Chodron

#13. The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.

Jurgen Habermas

#14. I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

Pat Morita

#15. Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.

Henry Steele Commager