Mired Quotes

31 Mired quotes by 31 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits. — John Ralston Saul
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
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
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
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
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
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
(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time) — Kate Atkinson

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