New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,'… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure. — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
With 'Crucible,' any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I… — Troy Denning Copy Share Image
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I did some… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red Reverberance of hail upon the dead… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments? — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not know,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretence… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
