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digging-a-hole rest-of-life digging
Laurie Halse Anderson I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.
digging-a-hole digging holes
Bill McKibben When you are in a hole, stop digging!
digging-a-hole law firsts
Denis Healey It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
digging-a-hole holes persons
Christopher Paolini I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.
digging-a-hole rivers giving
A. A. Milne I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.
law knowing shy
Charles Dickens Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.
law justice water
Charles Caleb Colton In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
law land tree
Charles Caleb Colton The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
Charles Caleb Colton If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
Charles Caleb Colton With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law idiot ass
Charles Dickens The law is an ass, an idiot.
law equity appearing
Charles Dickens Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.
law lawyer mere
Charles Dickens But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
law idiot ass
Charles Dickens If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.
firsts sun start-the-day
Charles Dickens The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
firsts profession
Charles Caleb Colton A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
firsts three novel
Charles Stross I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.
firsts christ salvation
Charles Spurgeon The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.
firsts done christ
Charles Spurgeon Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.
firsts chaos authority
Alan Moore Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
firsts film made
Al Pacino I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
firsts shy language
Al Pacino My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
firsts spurs worship
Aiden Wilson Tozer We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.