The Shoemaker's Holiday Quotes & Sayings

Every man makes many mistakes during his lifetime, but there's always one, a single decision, a sin of omission or commission, which towers above all others. An error, a diamond sparkling in the debris, that one can point at and know for eternity to be the fulcrum about which the remainder of one's life turned before spinning off to destruction. — Simon D. Reagan

This is the source of the trouble. Persons tend to think and feel exclusively in one mode or the other and in doing so tend to misunderstand and underestimate what the other mode is all about. But no one is willing to give up the truth as he sees it, and as far as I know, no one now living has any real reconciliation of these truths or modes. There is no point at which these visions of reality are unified. And — Robert M. Pirsig

I cannot know who I am, because I don't know which part of me is not me. — Erich Fromm

I bet you don't know what is the first thing Little Leaguers always ask me, 'How much money do you make?' — Rocky Bridges

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies. — Huston Smith

One reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. — Aldous Huxley

That was a version of history reliant on a narrow range of official summaries and gubernatorial archives created and archived by the most dubious sources - southern whites who engineered and most directly profited from the system. It overlooked many of the most significant dimensions of the new forced labor, including the centrality of its role in the web of restrictions put in place to suppress black citizenship, its concomitant relationship to debt peonage and the worst forms of sharecropping, and an exponentially larger number of African Americans compelled into servitude through the most informal - and tainted - local courts. — Douglas A. Blackmon

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important ... The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it? — Helen Keller

It was a sweet smile, but it hid menace, like the kind dentists gave. — Andy Paine

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it. — Martin Amis

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine. — John Fogerty

The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today. — John C. Maxwell