Quagmires Quagmire Quotes & Sayings

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy. — Suzanne La Follette

Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. — J.K. Rowling

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western. — Patrick Warburton

It never happened
but it seemed like
there were times when rot
stopped
waited like a streetcar
at a signal. — Charles Bukowski

Life is the art from our inner feeling. — Jan Jansen

Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test. — Mike Tyson

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development. — Thomas M. Disch

Aquinas wondered what would happen if God wanted to achieve universal resurrection. In other words, bringing everybody who had ever lived back to life at the same time. What would happen to cannibals, and the people they ate? You couldn't bring them all back at the same time, because the cannibals are made of the people they have eaten. You could have one but not the other. Ha.' I looked at Rowan. 'That's a good example of a paradox. — Scarlett Thomas

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it. — Lupita Nyong'o

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage. — Ken Livingstone

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
[From the preface to Leaves Grass] — Walt Whitman

No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires. — Donald Rumsfeld

The library turned out to be a very pleasant place, but it was not the comfortable chairs, the huge wooden bookshelves, or the hush of people reading that made the three siblings feel so good as they walked into the room. It is useless for me to tell you all about the brass lamps in the shapes of different fish, or the bright blue curtains that rippled like water as a breeze came in from the window, because although these were wonderful things they were no what made the three children smile. The Quagmire triplets were smiling, too, and although I have not researched the Quagmires nearly as much as I have the Baudelaires, I can say with reasonable accuracy that they were smiling for the same reason. — Lemony Snicket

The test of all happiness is gratitude; and I felt grateful, though I hardly knew to whom. Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth? — G.K. Chesterton

You have to keep your wealth afloat and no one will do it for you. It'll run through your fingers if you don't care. — Jessie Burton