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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing. -- John Arbuthnot
Law is a bottomless pit. -- John Arbuthnot
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. -- Erich Fromm
There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits. -- Michelle Malkin
Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit. -- Edmund Phelps
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered. -- Otto Dix
If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it. -- Guy Finley
Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space. -- Alan Huffman
The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours. -- Tullian Tchividjian
My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hung cliffs and slippery boulders. It has a torrential sheet waterfall at one end and is almost black in colour, so it appears bottomless, a portal to nowhere. -- Sarah Hall
Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre. -- John Podhoretz
Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life. -- Jessica Lange
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. -- Willa Cather
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
Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts. -- Trent Reznor
I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me. -- Per Petterson
I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave the perception in the public that the war on poverty has been lost. That Africa is just a bottomless pit of despair. When, in fact, really the opposite is true on both fronts. -- Nicholas Kristof
Debt is a bottomless sea. -- Thomas Carlyle
The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
She had a bottomless well of love for me. -- Mitch Albom
Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour -- Euripides
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind, -- Jack Kerouac
The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless. -- Seamus Heaney
Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit. -- Sun Ra
Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile? -- Arthur Rimbaud
Motorcycle helmets are bottomless. Strippers are topless. And my love is middleless. -- Jarod Kintz
All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. -- Charles Stross
Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit. -- Cassandra Clare
I'm talking ideal, I live in heaven, and my stomach is bottomless. -- Ilana Glazer
They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless. -- John Major
Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair. -- John Bowlby
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless? -- Thomas Mann
And in the ocean I will fly to the bottomless pit of darkness -- ellena fedora
When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion. -- Steven Pressfield
Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit. -- Mahatma Gandhi
While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless. -- Henry David Thoreau
A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. -- Alexander Smith
There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care. -- George Harrison
The sign on the bar said: 'girls- topless, bottomless', I went inside and there was nobody there! -- Rodney Dangerfield
The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief. -- Beth Orton
A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there -- Alanis Morissette
Oceans are vast and almost bottomless. You dance in the rain Elizabeth. You drown in the sea. -- Jennifer Rush
I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton. -- Nat Hentoff
Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top. -- Edgar Wilson Nye
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. -- Emile Durkheim
I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her. -- Susan Abulhawa
We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good. -- Jaron Lanier
May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit! -- Patricia C. Wrede
Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning. -- Carol S. Dweck
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless. -- Pema Chodron
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas. -- Aldous Huxley
The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes. -- D. H. Lawrence
She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me. -- Mitch Albom
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit. -- Mario Cuomo
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War) -- Charles de Gaulle
Trolls must continually feed their bottomless need, so be strong and patiently wait out their fires of hatred for eventually they eat their own. -- L.M. Fields
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair. -- Iris Murdoch
Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless. -- Sheila Heti
The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further. -- D. H. Lawrence
It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then. -- Josephine Tey
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
Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing. -- Christopher Meloni
Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned. -- Francis Asbury
I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral. -- Dan Savage
Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more. -- Dean Koontz
Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget? -- Robert Peel
Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest. -- John Ruskin
Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity." "FYI, philosophy bores me." "Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance. -- J.R. Ward
I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every night." It's so dark and so bottomless. -- Justin Theroux
The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision. -- Osamu Dazai
If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities. -- Paul Johnson
Natural law has decreed it so. Isn't death as much a part of the flow as life? Why fight it? Because maybe the flow splashes into a bottomless pit past that blind turn. -- Thomm Quackenbush
Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there. -- Farkas Bolyai
Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world. -- Werner Herzog
It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss. -- Lech Walesa
In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel. -- Michael Joseph Oakeshott

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