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  • With the disappearance of the future, the only thing that remains in your hands is now. Then you can go deep into this now - whatsoever you are doing. You can be eating or dancing or making love to a woman or singing or digging a hole in the ground - whatsoever you are doing. This is the only time you have, why not do it totally? Why not celebrate it? Celebration and being total mean the same thing. You celebrate only when you are total in something, and when you are total in something you celebrate it.

  • I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

    Eye   Men   House  
    Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.24, Cambridge University Press
  • Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

    Fashion   Leader   House  
  • I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

  • In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

    Garden   Sowing   Digging  
    Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan, Helmut T. Lehmann (1955). “Works”
  • If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.

    Heart   Mean   Digging  
  • The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

    "Nick Bostrom on the Future, Transhumanism and the End of the World". Interview with Jonathan McCalmont, ieet.org. January 22, 2007.
  • I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

  • If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

  • When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

  • What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern?

    Horse   Men   Hands  
    Charles Darwin (1872). “The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.441
  • Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I though, as I realized I'd drawn blood. And sure enough, he didn't. "Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want.

    Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead”, p.113, Penguin
  • I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'

    Real   Thinking   Luck  
    "Liam Neeson - 'A sex symbol? Flattering, but I don't think so'" by Gill Pringle, www.independent.co.uk. April 5, 2012.
  • When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

  • I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born." 'Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family or genetic code.

    Digging   Ashes   Faces  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.213, Hachette UK
  • A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

    Strong   Class   Digging  
    "Special Coverage for the DNC". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2008.
  • India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.

    Source: www.progressive.org
  • Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

    Struggle   Soul   Digging  
    Source: collider.com
  • I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

    Long   Digging   Band  
  • Funny thing how you first meet the woman that you marry. I first met the wife in a tunnel of love. She was digging it.

  • You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.

    Flower   Land   Roots  
  • To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is almost poetic. If you're in a room full of magicians and someone just mentions the word cards, within seconds, everyone is digging into their pockets and pulling out a deck of cards. It's one of the most amazing feelings ever.

  • Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called "mountaintop employments of great value," we spend our time in digging a pit and then falling therein, so that our temporary joy may become a permanent and bitter loss.

    Time   Fall   Ambition  
  • The trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something.

    Debbi Fields, Alan Furst (1987). “"One smart cookie": how a housewife's chocolate chip recipe turned into a multimillion-dollar business--the story of Mrs. Fields cookies”, Simon & Schuster
  • Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.

  • 'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.

    Book   Kids   Play  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally find out whether a man had been a horse-thief, or an embezzler or a wife-beater, if you worked hard enough, but acts of kindness, of charity, a gay spirit, vanished without leaving a trace.

    Horse   Kindness   Gay  
  • I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

    Summer   Father   Taken  
  • When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.

    Sex   Tangled   Design  
  • When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

    Business   Egypt   Games  
    Sir Leonard Woolley (1920). “Dead Towns and Living Men: Being Pages from an Antiquary's Notebook”, London, Milford
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