Pits Quotes

JESUS WILL LIFT you out of the deepest pit, but He will not lift you out of your easy chair.

I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.

We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.

Jesus was born again in the pit of hell. .. The church started when Jesus was born again in the gates of hell.

Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'

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.

No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

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.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

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.

Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me.

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

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.

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

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.

The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.

Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really bad or both. A feeling of being old and young at once. A sense of beginnings and endings happening at the same time. A certainty that your life is changing, but an uncertainty about how it's changing and whether you want it to.

Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach.

Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

There's just a pit that develops in your stomach and doesn't go away. It's the championship pit and it's there.

God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.

Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.

'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.

Law is a bottomless pit.

I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

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.

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

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."

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.

If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.

They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

It`s an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement , it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.

I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.

I smell blood. I'm like a pit bull. Once I taste blood I'm on you .. and I'm about to taste blood.

Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.

He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.