The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which... Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dutton Peabody: No, no, no, you don't. No. I'm a newspaperman not a politician. Politicians are my meat. I build 'em up. I tear 'e...m down. But I, I wouldn't be one. I couldn't. It'd, it'd destroy me. Gimme a drink. Tom Donophon: The bar is closed. Peabody: Good people of Shinbone, I, I, I'm your conscience. I'm the still small voice that thunders in the night. I'm your watchdog that howls against the wolves. I'm, I'm your father confessor. I, I, I'm, what else am I? Tom: The town drunk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, ...I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the ve...ssel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of the ...storm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly un...der crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,... A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No, the romance and the beauty were all gone from the river. All the value any feature of it had for me now was the amount of usef...ulness it could furnish toward compassing the safe piloting of a steamboat. Since those days, I have pitied doctors from my heart. What does the lovely flush in a beauty's cheek mean to a doctor but a "break" that ripples above some deadly disease? Are not all her visible charms sown thick with what are to him the signs and symbols of hidden decay? Does he ever see her beauty at all, or doesn't he simply view her professionally, and comment upon her unwholesome condition all to himself? And doesn't he sometimes wonder whether he has gained most or lost most by learning his trade?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »