To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up--to be wedded to an idea--may be,... after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described--and will be, after o...ur deaths--by each of the family members who believe they know us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I should like a lover to think of the things that I think about. It is all very well being steady when you have got babies of your... own; but that should be after ever so long. I should like to keep my lover as a lover for two years. And all that time he should like to dance with me, and to hear music, and to go about just when I would like to go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sisters, I a'n't clear what you'd be after. Ef women want any rights more'n dey's got, why don't dey jes take 'em, an' not be talk...in' about it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.... Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those great ideas which come to you in your sleep just before you awake in morning, those solutions to the world's problems which,... in the light of day, turn out to be duds of the puniest order, couldn't they be put to some use, after all?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here stands the row of enormous stelæ that have furnished the date that links the Mayan calendar to ours. These stones standing g...rimly in line, swelling with the enormous strength of their halfobliterated carvings, still give you, through all the confusion of races and empires long dead, of languages and writings that can never be understood, a feeling of serene order and form... so that after seeing them, the railroad and the guns and the overseers and the loading sheds and the uptodate malaria hospital, all the carefully organized machinery for efficiently squeezing...the sweat and blood of the yellow brown and white mongrel race of workers who live in the rows of company shacks...seems feeble and flabby, not organization at all, not order at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience, that here, here in America, is the home of man. After all th...e deductions which are to be made of for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die, whether James or whether Jonathan shall sit in the chair and hold the purse; after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty, which, when it loses its balance, redresses itself presently, which offers opportunity to the human mind not known in any other region.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, underg...oes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Steve, all those things that happened to us, everything that went before, we'll forget it. You'll see. I'll make you forget it. Af...ter it's done, after it's all over and we're safe, it'll be just you and me. You and me. The way it should've been all along from the start.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »