A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, lea...ving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. ... But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathe...rn boxes; and though they know us, and have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us,--some of them,--and are eager to give us a sign and unbosom themselves, it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to; and as the enchanter has dressed them, like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,--not a choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages;... But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family passion...s to the passions and ideals that bind individuals to new family units, to their communities, to the species, to nature, to the cosmos. Therefore, given half a chance, the revolution at issue in adolescence becomes a revolution of transformation, not of annihilation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let my hands find such symbols, that can be Unnoticed in the casual light of day,... Lying in wait for half a century To split chance lives across, that had not dreamed Such coasts had echoed, or such seabirds screamed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we approach discipline as learning, this ability to internalize moral behavior will occur in the natural course of growth. Ch...ildren will make mistakes, but, given half a chance, they will learn from them. Our disappointment and displeasure give them pause--and a strong desire to do better the next time around. However, when parents are too quick to punish (or when they assume that children will not really learn from their mistakes without paying a penalty), these lessons may be lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capaci...ty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dude: I been goin' in the back door. They haven't been lettin' me in the front. Chance: Think you're good enough?... Dude: I'd like to find out. Chance: So would I.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chance: That tune, they been playin' it all day. What is it? Dude: Oh, it's some Mexican piece. I heard it farther south....<...br />Colorado: Well, they call it "The Deguello," the cutthroat song. The Mexicans played it for those Texas boys when they had them bottled up in the Alamo. Played it day and night 'til it was all over. Now do you know what he means by it? Chance: No quarter, no mercy for the loser.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »