Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to chec...k the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to k...now how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessio...ns upon the same terms as to the men--because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And so we ask for peace for the gods of our fathers, for the gods of our native land. It is reasonable that whatever each of us wo...rships is really to be considered one and the same. We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe compasses us. What does it matter what practical systems we adopt in our search for the truth. Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might b...oth hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book--a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which to...ld its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »