#digging

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

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

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

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me. ↗

— Zane Grey

#coal #digging #i #like #me

Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#band #behind #cassette #concept #day