Shunters Pole Quotes & Sayings

It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty. — Thomas Browne

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you. — Sean Young

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it. — Henry Ward Beecher

History almost everywhere is tragic and ironic, but in America the contrasts are more stark because we set such high ideals. — Rinker Buck

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all. — Willa Cather

There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything. — Amy Sedaris

The Cheers writers were the finest in television. But I felt like I was repeating myself; it bothered me a little bit. And I was getting movie offers, which made people think, "Oh, she's so snooty. She thinks she's going to do movies." — Shelley Long

In truth, the unicorn was me - the me I wished I could be - if only I dared. — F.F. White

Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean. But because they never learned each other's language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met. To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point. And the two countries are still at war. — Vera Nazarian

...no matter how liberal a church may seem, Christian dogma still revolves around an ancient, paternalistic image of God the Father, who quite frankly isn't much more believable than the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus. — Gudjon Bergmann