#digging

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#digging #garden #growing #how #like

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money. ↗

— Iris Dement

#corporation #digging #information #make #money

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past. ↗

— Heinrich Schliemann

#digging #imagine #lives #nothing #our

Despite marking the spot, Generation X has no treasure. How could they, when I dug it up first? 
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— Jarod Kintz

#digging #generation #generation-x #map #nonsense

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past. ↗

— Anita Desai

#back #backwards #begins #believe #book

The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody. ↗

— Jon Runyan

#anybody #biggest #biggest change #change #control

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

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