I think that today, integration is the name of the game and not separating these things out, and not trying to find the razor's edge, the narrow path. There's a lot of lanes in the highway, the trick is not fall into the ditches on either side, like a one sided nihilism, nothing matters life.
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
While infrastructure is of course important, it must be part of a bigger vision. The point is not to simply dig ditches but to steer those investments towards transformational growth.
I don't dig ditches for a living, so I don't really hate going to work. I chose this for a reason. I would much prefer to be over-worked than under-worked.
My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.
Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?
It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
Wrinkles are ditches that the gods have dug for our tears.
Some guys dig ditches, I have a band. It's what I do
I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.
