Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD w...as not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, -What are you doing here, Elijah?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He will watch you while you work, and always has a good word to say or a quip to snap at you to keep you cheered up, but when it c...omes to taking off his coat and lending a hand,... he is an Oriental incense-holder on the guest-room mantle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freud was once asked what he thought a normal person should be able to do well. The questioner probably expected a complicated ans...wers. But Freud, in the curt way of his old days, is reported to have said: "Lieben und arbeiten" (to love and to work). It pays to ponder on this simple formula; it gets deeper as you think about it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge... Through living roots awaken in my head. But I've no spade to follow men like them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Back now to autumn, leaving the ended husk Of summer that brought them here for Show Saturday... The men with hunters, dog-breeding wool-defined women, Children all saddle-swank, mugfaced middleaged wives Glaring at jellies, husbands on leave from the garden Watchful as weasels, car-tuning curt-haired sons Back now, all of them, to their local lives....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Great is my envy of death whose curt hard sword Carried her whom I called my life away;... Me he disdains, and mocks me from her eyes!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused--in place o...f the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery--by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press--their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,... And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who should say, "I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »