Usage examples for Pinches

Famous quotes with Pinches

• If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

  Horace
• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  Carl Jung
• The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

  Albert Einstein
• The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  Carl Jung
• Catholic priests know where the shoe pinches. But their day is done, and they know it. They are far too intelligent not to see that, and to enter upon a hopeless battle. But if they do, I shall certainly not make martyrs of them. We shall brand them as ordinary criminals. I shall tear the mask of honesty from their faces. And if that is not enough, I shall make them appear ridiculous and contemptible. I shall order films to be made about them. We shall show the history of the monks on the cinema. Let the whole mass of nonsense, selfishness, repression and deceit be revealed: how they drained the money out of the country, how they haggled with the Jews for the world, how they committed incest.

  Hermann Rauschning

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