Schaming Construction Quotes & Sayings

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms. — Joseph Story

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life. — Josiah Royce

Divine Consciousness is constantly seeking ways to express itself through us. — Sonia Choquette

I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old — Bayard Taylor

Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself ... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a sick person, helps me,' Jesus said ... Just as the priest can touch Jesus, so do we touch Jesus in the bodies of our patients ... We have opportunities to do good that the priest doesn't have. Our mission is not finished when medicines are no longer of use. We must bring the soul to God; our word has some authority ... Catholic doctors are so necessary! — Gianna Beretta Molla

I guess if you put off dealing with things long enough, they simply came after you when you least wanted them to. — Cindi Madsen

But this book is about something else: what goes on in the lives of real people when the industrial economy goes south. It's about reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible. It's about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it. The problems that I saw at the tile warehouse run far deeper than macroeconomic trends and policy. too many young men immune to hard work. Good jobs impossible to fill for any length of time. And a young man [one of Vance's co-workers] with every reason to work - a wife-to-be to support and a baby on the way - carelessly tossing aside a good job with excellent health insurance. More troublingly, when it was all over, he thought something had been done to him. There is a lack of agency here - a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself. This is distinct from the larger economic landscape of modern America. — J.D. Vance

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. — Gore Vidal

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. — Stanley Kubrick

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way. — Pierce Brosnan

If one could not remember somebody's trousers, then jeans were the safe default. Indeed, "defaults" was a good name for jeans. I put on my defaults. It sounded quite right. — Alexander McCall Smith