Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, w...hich will not be taken away from her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry that his ...actions are harmful at the moment or may be injurious to his future. It does not help me as a parent nor lessen my worries when my child drives carelessly, even dangerously, if I am told that this is "normal" behavior for children of his age. I'd much prefer him to deviate from the norm and be a cautious driver!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the p...rofessions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodgin...g his emptiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whip... of the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to a... frenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, and ...which sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One might compare the journey of the soul to mystical union, by way of pure faith, to the journey of a car on a dark highway. The ...only way the driver can keep to the road is by using his headlights. So in the mystical life, reason has its function. The way of faith is necessarily obscure. We drive by night. Nevertheless our reason penetrates the darkness enough to show us a little of the road ahead. It is by the light of reason that we interpret the signposts and make out the landmarks along our way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, i...t remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Frenchmen! This is a rehearsal. Hold those policemen. A famous film actor will presently come running out of this house. He is an ...arch-criminal but he must escape. You are asked to prevent them from grabbing him. This is part of the plot. French crowd! I want you to make a free passage for him from door to car. Remove its driver! Start the motor! Hold those policemen, knock them down, sit on them--we pay them for it. This is a German company, so excuse my French. Les preneurs de vues, my technicians and armed advisers are already among you. Attention! I want a clean getaway. That's all. Thank you. I am coming out now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »