I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a bumpy road filled with potholes. . . and detours. Sometimes we even veer off into the ditch. But the places that road will take you, the things you'll experience, are worth all of the uncertainty.
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.
Now a doll found naked in a ditch eyes rusted open, is blasphemy.
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.
I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.
Iraq is sort of a situation where you've got a guy who drove the bus into the ditch. You obviously have to get the bus out of the ditch, and that's not easy to do, although you probably should fire the driver.
I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldnt get batteries. I wasnt trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.
Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!
John Terry is the perfect skipper. It's obvious Chelsea means everything to him. When he makes those last ditch blocks, team-mates can't help but be inspired.
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch.
You missed World Hist. " "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.
I've never been in a ditch so low that a run wouldn't pop me out of it.
We gotta ditch conservatism and people that believe it, we gotta move on. Otherwise, if we don't, we're just delaying our nightmare, postponing the nightmare. That's Ford O'Connell.
From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.
I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth.
The seduction of evil is precisely in that it involves us in trying to eliminate it. When your consciousness is open, any action you take in reference to evil has no more significance than digging a ditch to channel floodwaters away from a house.
If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun.
