A Quote by George Pope Morris

Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end.

George Pope Morris

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Because Been Depth End Law Much Nobody Obscure Pit See

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George Pope Morris
American - Editor
October 10, 1802 - July 6, 1864

Law is a bottomless pit.

John Arbuthnot

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

John Arbuthnot

They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

You want all the money inside football. We do not have a bottomless pit of money. There are constraints. That's why some deals I have said no to because of the finances of them.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless pit. But he's not so much needy as entitled, so no matter how much you give him, it will never be enough. He will just keep coming up with more demands because he believes his needs are your responsibility, until you feel drained down to nothing.

Lundy Bancroft

When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

Sada Thompson

He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness. "You know," he concluded, after a while, "I think he actually looks like an Adam.

Neil Gaiman

Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.

Cassandra Clare

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.

John Major

Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.

Sun Ra

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

Alexander Smith

I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act to help end discrimination to help end discrimination against same-sex couples in this country. Now, I want to add we have a duty to uphold existing law, but I believe we must do so in a way that does not exacerbate old divides. And fulfilling this duty in upholding the law in no way lessens my commitment to reversing this law. I've made that clear.

Barack Obama

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.

Claire Danes

We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.