Mired Quotes
31 Mired quotes by 31 unique authors
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I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in…
— Jim McDermott
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Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well…
— Diana Peterfreund
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Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely. Similarly, people with…
— Robert Grudin
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If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look…
— Bruce Jenner
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I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy…
— George W. Bush
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Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of…
— Harry Reid
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Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error.…
— Carl Sagan
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The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are…
— Deepak Chopra
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A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain…
— Michael Shermer
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My soul is the bridge between spirit and body and, as such, is a uniter of opposites. Without soul at center, I would either transcend…
— Marion Woodman
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One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity…
— Christian Wiman
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Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous…
— Bryan Fischer
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A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading…
— Unknown Author
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And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else's), the jealousy, the disappointment, the blocks, the…
— Jami Attenberg
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Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what…
— Jhonen Vasquez
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If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.
— John Ralston Saul
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The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the…
— Charles Derber
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To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the…
— Walter Cronkite
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Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise - so that…
— Amy Dickinson
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Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot…
— N.D. Wilson
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When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all.…
— S.M. Stirling
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(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)
— Kate Atkinson
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