Digging Quote by Molly Ivins Download Open image “The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.” — Molly Ivins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Digging Discernment Firsts Holes Political Politics
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships. — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks… — Mark Mobius Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The Ancient One, as you know, is the master, is the Sorcerer Supreme, and [Doctor] Strange comes to learn how to heal himself and… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image