Cummiskey Construction Quotes & Sayings

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. — Laura Riding

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise ... — Mark Twain

I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - but I've got to call somebody because I've got to get a band-aid or something to stop the bleeding. — Danny DeVito

What is there to imagine with a gun?" asked Papa . . . .
"Something dead," Papa said more quietly. "That's what there is to imagine with a gun. — Paula Fox

No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise. — Edgar Guest

Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track. — Ciaran Hinds

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert

Masculine sexiness. But, the man behind that deep and — Lauren Blakely

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God. — C.S. Lewis

Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head. — Henry Kirke White

The American learns about the law by participating in the making of it. He teaches himself about the forms of government by governing. He watches the great work of society being done every day before his eyes and, in a sense, by his hand.
In the United States, all of education is directed toward politics. In Europe, its principal purpose is to prepare people for private life. Citizens take part in public affairs too seldom to prepare them for it in advance. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The result is that we criminalize poverty, believing all the while that our tools are not only scientific but fair. — Cathy O'Neil

If reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion unto reason. — Thomas Browne