"The first rule of holes: When you're in…" — Molly Ivins
"The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging."
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79 Quotes by Molly Ivins
Molly Ivins has 79 quotes on this site.
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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
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Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking…
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In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and…
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Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to…
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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
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Oh, hell, I can’t go on a spiritual journey—I'm constipated.
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It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans…
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I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch…
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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is…
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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there’s nothing you can do about being born liberal —…
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More Digging Quotes
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one of 247 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in…
— Juliette Binoche
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich…
— Bono
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To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to…
— Tom Brady
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And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us,…
— Madeleine Albright
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I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is…
— Emily Carr
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You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.
— Benjamin Carson
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How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a…
— Neville Chamberlain
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Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.
— Richard Briers
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The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are…
— H. L. Mencken
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Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
— Marcus Aurelius
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No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
— Mae West
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