#digging

Things were definitely going badly. The night looked like ending in disaster. In one corner of the room Maria Blond had started squabbling with Léa de Horn, whom she accused of sleeping with men who weren't really rich. ↗

— Émile Zola

#squabbling #men

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run. ↗

— Mike Norton

#die #dig #digging #escape #evil

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#digging #ditch #entire #entire world #far

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#approach #countries #digging #eight #evident

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#digging #grave #i #knew #my own

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. ↗

— Emily Carr

#digging #does #explain #grows #growth

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#between #country #digging #fantastic #faraway

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#bureaucrats #comes #corporate #digging #government

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#changes #characters #day #deep #depict

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging! ↗

— Denis Healey

#first #first law #holes #law #stop