#pit

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #pit




In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.


Rahm Emanuel


#catcher #deliver #going #govern #house

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.


W. E. B. Du Bois


#amused #contempt #eyes #looking #looks

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.


Robert Emmet


#character #country #earth #epitaph #her

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.


Erma Bombeck


#book #club #computer #getting #hospital

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.


Edward Bond


#bodies #difference #humanness #lost #people

Regardless of your political affiliation, most people agree that Ronald Reagan was an American icon. He was a president of national significance and for that reason he deserves an honor in the nation's capital.


Henry Bonilla


#agree #american #capital #deserves #honor

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.


Desiderius Erasmus


#got #nature #nothing #nowadays #out

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.


R. Lee Ermey


#go #hospital #i #jumps #me

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.


Norman Borlaug


#fact #food #granted #half #hungry

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.


Frank Borman


#capitalism #christianity #hell #like #without