Crabs In Barrel Quotes & Sayings

Much of your pain is self-chosen. — Daniel Coenn

Do you love him?
There were only a few people in the world who could ask me such insanely personal questions without getting punched. Dimitri was one of them. — Richelle Mead

Keep on. The work of the world is always done by creatures too tired to do it. — Carol Emshwiller

we were like crabs in a barrel, that none would allow the other to climb over, but on any such attempt all would continue to pull back into the barrel the one crab that would make the effort to climb out. — Marcus Garvey

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art! — Amy Lowell

Mere existence is already the result of incredible luck. Such was the case on Earth in the past, and such has always been the case in this cruel universe. But at some point, humanity began to develop the illusion that they're entitled to life, that life can be taken for granted. — Liu Cixin

Death is the sweetest apple that you can only bite once — Peter Luther

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. — Henry Ford

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least. — Justin Timberlake

naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range. — David Bentley Hart

The Pension Dressler stood in a side street and had, at first glance, the air rather of a farm than of a hotel. Frau Dressler's pig, tethered by one hind trotter to the jamb of the front door, roamed the yard and disputed the kitchen scraps with the poultry. He was a prodigious beast. Frau Dressler's guests prodded him appreciatively on the way to the dining-room, speculating on how soon he would be ripe for killing. The milch-goat was allowed a narrower radius; those who kept strictly to the causeway were safe, but she never reconciled herself to this limitation and, day in, day out, essayed a series of meteoric onslaughts on the passers-by, ending, at the end of her rope, with a jerk which would have been death to an animal of any other species. One day the rope would break; she knew it, and so did Frau Dressler's guests. — Evelyn Waugh

After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart. — Andy Andrews

I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities. — Andrew Lansley

Having had the wrong education as a start in his racial career, the Negro has become his own greatest enemy. Most of the trouble I have had in advancing the cause of the race has come from Negroes. Booker Washington aptly described the race in one of his lectures by stating that we were like crabs in a barrel, that none would allow the other to climb over, but on any such attempt all would continue to pull back into the barrel the one crab that would make the effort to climb out. Yet, those of us with vision cannot desert the race, leaving it to suffer and die. — Marcus Garvey

With all that's going on in our lives and the world, reducing stress is important, and it's a factor in heart health. — Andie MacDowell

He who believes in Him is not condemned;but he who does not believe in Him is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God — Anonymous