Pits Quotes

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

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.

Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy

Life is just a bowl of pits.

We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit.

If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

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.

My family worry for me because I'm gonna burn in an eternal pit of fire.

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

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.

I don't know why I still feel this pit in my stomach whenever I get a moment to think. I know what the pit is, too; I feel lonely. But I'm not alone, I keep telling myself.

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

I don't see that as being good for America - that the country pits parents against everybody else.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

I love metal songs about metal. That's one of my favorite things. Nobody does that any more. Nobody sings about how metal they are, or about their fans, or about how crazy their pits are.

Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.

My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?

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.

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

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.

Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.

Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end.

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

I'm not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It's there sitting dormant. I'll know it when I see it.

Personally, I don't do certain things. I read articles and they'll pit me against Lil' Kim like I'm going to smash them down. I never said any of that; I never said I didn't like Kim or Foxy [Brown].

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when youre depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.

Pit Riley had a lasting effect on us as players and the coaching staff.

Quite honestly, there are days when I don't need a God who will deliver me from the pit, just a God who will get down in a pit with me.

I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack

I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides.

You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

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.

I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected.

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

We laugh & it pits the world against us.

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."

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all.

I'm a terrible dancer. Terrible. Just the pits. And I had to do these cheerleading things and it was just cringe-worthy. I mean, I'm so bad, so that was painful.

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.

I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds and the beast rises from the pit - we will kill it.