Schmieding Sawmill Quotes & Sayings

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment. — Seth

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. — V. Raymond Edman

Given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees. — Allan Jacobs

How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals. — Leni Riefenstahl

So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity. — Thomas Hardy

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way. — Timothy Keller

The media doesn't always reflect reality. — John Catsimatidis

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft. — Cass Sunstein

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science. — Samuel Johnson

You are twenty. You are not dead, although you were dead. The girl who died. And was resurrected. Children. Witches. Magic. Symbols. Remember the illogic of the fantasy. The strange tableau in the closet behind the bathroom: the feast, the beast, and the jelly-bean. Recall, remember: please do not die again. Let there be continuity at least - a core of consistency - even if your philosophy must be always a moving dynamic dialectic. The thesis is the easy time, the happy time. The antithesis threatens annihilation. The synthesis is the consummate problem. — Sylvia Plath

Is this what is called remorse of conscience or repentance? I do not know, and I cannot tell to this day. Perhaps this remembrance even now contains something pleasurable for my passions. No
what is unbearable to me is only this image alone, and precisely on the threshold, with its raised and threatening little fist, only that look alone, only that minute alone, only that shaking head. This is what I cannot bear, because since then it appears to me almost every day. It does not appear on its own, but I myself evoke it, and cannot help evoking it, even though I cannot live with it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run. — Mike Norton