Warren G. Harding invented the word "normalcy," And the lesser-known "bloviate," meaning, one imagines,... To spout, to spew aimless verbiage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater an...d lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens--women, workers and the members of subject races--to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our basic ideas about how to parent are encrusted with deeply felt emotions and many myths. One of the myths of parenting is that ...it is always fun and games, joy and delight. Everyone who has been a parent will testify that it is also anxiety, strife, frustration, and even hostility. Thus most major parenting- education formats deal with parental emotions and attitudes and, to a greater or lesser extent, advocate that the emotional component is more important than the knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Socrates drinking the hemlock, And Jesus on the rood;... And millions who, humble and nameless, The straight, hard pathway plod-- Some call it Consecration, And others call it God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If English is spoken in heaven ... God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probab...ly use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment..., but soon he will watch them filing out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Women's] apparent endorsement of male supremacy is ... a pathetic striving for self- respect, self-justification, and self-pardon.... After fifteen hundred years of subjection to men, Western woman finds it almost unbearable to face the fact that she has been hoodwinked and enslaved by her inferiors--that the master is lesser than the slave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your hand skilled to yield death-blows, might break... With the slightest turn no ill will meant my own lesser, yet still somewhat fine-wrought, fiery-tempered, delicate, over-passionate steel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »