Quotes about morass (11 Quotes)


    The dogs of war have been unleashed in Florida, and that's what happens when you deviate from the rule of law and go into this morass of subjective hand counting with no standards, changing standards all of the time,


    The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.




    Hence an ignorant , man should be afraid of accepting any presents, for by reason of a very small , gift even a fool sinks , into hell as a cow into a morass.

    Japan's politicians have hunkered down and have moved to do nothing, hoping that the currency's weakness might bail them out of their morass. We are short of the yen, and we expect to remain short of the yen for the long, foreseeable future.

    Guilt is driven, in part, by the lack of access to information, especially during a crisis. It's brought on by trying to get through the morass of needs and decisions and not knowing what supports and services are available. Often there hasn't been anyone there to tell us what we might need until we actually need it, so there's tremendous guilt in feeling we haven't done enough.


    I'm just grateful that I don't have to negotiate the morass of trying to determine which is the best plan and whether my drugs will be dropped. The retiree benefits I'm getting are much better.

    I would doubt that this much money has been spent accomplishing important 'on-the-ground' recovery work. It is now coming up on 10 years since (it) was first listed as a 'threatened' species, and it is still not through the bureaucratic morass.



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