Shoveled Or Shovelled Quotes & Sayings

Dreams Are Today's Actions for Tomorrow's Outcome — Cynthia Belmer

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. — Newt Gingrich

There's a line from Heraclitus: No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. — Tom Rachman

There is a great deal of illusion in a work of art; one could go farther and say that it is illusory in and of itself, as a "work." Its ambition is to make others believe that it was not made but rather simply arose, burst forth from Jupiter's head like Pallas Athena fully adorned in enchased armor. But that is only a pretense. No work has ever come into being that way. It is indeed work, artistic labor for the purpose of illusion-and now the question arises whether, given the current state of our consciousness, our comprehension, and our sense of truth, the game is still permissible, still intellectually possible, can still be taken seriously; whether the work as such, as a self-sufficient and harmonically self-contained structure, still stands in a legitimate relation to our problematical social condition, with its total insecurity and lack of harmony; whether all illusion, even the most beautiful, and especially the most beautiful, has not become a lie today. — Thomas Mann

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. — Marilyn Hacker

But what if someone kills somebody else?"
Gurgeh shrugged. "They're slap-droned."
"Ah! This sounds more like it. What does that drone do?"
"Follows you around and makes sure you never do it again."
"Is that all?"
"What more do you want? Social death, Hamin; you don't get invited to too many parties."
"Ah; but in your Culture, can't you gatecrash?"
"I suppose so," Gurgeh conceded. "But nobody'd talk to you. — Iain M. Banks

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty. — Walter Lippmann

Freedoms once granted will not be relinquished without a fight. — Robert B. Cialdini

A mind may know a thing, the spirit may embrace it, but the voice that chatters in the head clings ever to shameful beliefs. — Ki Longfellow

I think it's time to open the books, on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations of UFOs, it's time to find out what the truth really is that's out there. We ought to do it because it's right, we ought to do it because the American people, and people around the world quite frankly can handle the truth, and we ought to do it because it's the law. — John Podesta

Do what you think best with it, George, and may God help us both. — Mary Mueller

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books. — Rick Moody

Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years. — Audrey Tautou

He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest. — Alexander Pope