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  • No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires. -- Donald Rumsfeld
  • My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. -- James Joyce
  • Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. -- Henrik Ibsen
  • I don't do quagmires. -- Donald Rumsfeld
  • My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions. -- Robert Creeley
  • MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris. -- Donald Clark
  • American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets. -- Sarah Vowell
  • At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire. -- Charles Rangel
  • Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward without ending the occupation. -- Jean Parker
  • 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
  • We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. -- George Soros
  • If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame. -- Wilbert Rideau
  • Congratulations to Ohio State, your new college football champions. Coach Urban Meyer may be the greatest football coach of all time. Don't confuse him with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. That's urban quagmire. -- David Letterman
  • Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, so far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean. -- Marisha Pessl
  • Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming something. Since theists are stuck with potentiality, it might as well be something like a quantum vacuum. -- Taner Edis
  • Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof; don't choose. The moment you choose, you have fallen into the trap of the world, or into the trap of the mind. -- Rajneesh
  • I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of quicksand I plead with you to avoid. You are of a noble birthright. Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated on their prophecies of doom and quagmire. Then we looked up to see, on television, correspondents actually embedded with our troops, reporting quick advances, one- sided firefights, melting opposition and, finally, welcoming crowds. -- Dick Morris
  • I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth. -- Martin Luther
  • Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test. -- Mike Tyson
  • The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away. -- Frosty Wooldridge
  • At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire. -- Charles Rangel
  • We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. -- George Soros
  • Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help. -- Peter Schuyler
  • Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself. -- David Harvey
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