Shoemans Custom Quotes & Sayings

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances. — Napoleon Bonaparte

black studies illuminates the essential role that racializing assemblages play in the construction of modern selfhood, works toward the abolition of Man, and advocates the radical reconstruction and decolonization of what it means to be human. In doing so, black studies pursues a politics of global liberation beyond the genocidal shackles of Man.3 — Alexander G. Weheliye

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It's the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn't have sisu, that's like spitting in his face. — Arthur Lydiard

A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heartm speaks and acts against his feelings. — Jean De La Bruyere

We stand and gaze. The farmhouse, the remnants of the wood, the heights, the trenches on the sky yonder, - it had been a terrible world and life a burden. Now it is over and will stay behind here; when we set out, it will drop behind us, step by step, and in an hour be gone as if it had never been. - Who can realize it? — Erich Maria Remarque

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors ... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

The quicker you get acclimated to getting hit and being on the ground, it's better for you when the games start. — LaDainian Tomlinson

As you pass through bhakti yoga, as you pass through love, you're elated. You're fulfilled and you're joyous. — Frederick Lenz

When a man finds a good thing, he wants to keep it. — Jeffrey A. White

Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it. — Peter S. Prescott

Others, tiring of the sound of Buxtehude and Bach for hours on end, would complain there was no tune. That was exactly the thing he liked best about a fugue, the fact that it could not be sung. A fugue was not singular, as a melody was, but plural. It was a conversation. — Kate Grenville

The whiskey's aroma was his equivalent of fresh brewed coffee. 'Here's looking at you, love,' Mayne said aloud, raising the bottle to his lips.
— Del James

I blame Riley for my broken thumb, not Matt Geiger. That ain't defense Miami is playing. That's just chopping. I have no idea how his team gets away with it. I guess when you've been in the league 30 years you can do it. Respect, he gets it - he's like John Gotti. — Shaquille O'Neal

Never a bad day, only bad moments. — Jon Gordon