"When you are in a hole, stop digging!"

-- Bill McKibben

#Digging Quotes #Holes Quotes

“Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.”
“Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.”
“The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.”
“hate is cancer of the soul!”
“Gone are the days when African leaders used to misrule their people and the rest of Africa was quiet under the guise of what was called non-interference.”
“A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely”

Source : R.J. Ellory (2013). “The R. J. Ellory Collection”, p.1441, Hachette UK
“My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.”
“Don't share your fantasies unless you're sure your partner really wants to hear them.”

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