It was awful thoughts, and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said, and never thought no more about reforming. I ...shoved the whole thing out of my head, and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn't. And for a starter, I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Darling, will you come home today... after a few hours, or at noon, or a little later, or when the whole day's passed?" A young wife with tearful words stuck in her throat spoils the departure of her man who wishes to go to a land that takes a hundred days to reach.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their associat...ion she had enjoyed the most:] The days when the struggle was the hardest and the fight the thickest; when the whole world was against us and we had to stand the closer to each other; when I would go to her home and help with the children and the housekeeping through the day and then we would sit up far into the night preparing our ammunition and getting ready to move on the enemy. The years since the rewards began to come have brought no enjoyment like that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of t...he revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious hi...mself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't s...peak of a conscience yet in the child who is just acquiring language, but we can see very clearly how language plays an indispensable role in the formation of conscience. In fact, the moral achievement of man, the whole complex of factors that go into the organization of conscience is very largely based upon language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country's ready to let go. You heard of that market crash... in '29? I predicted that.... I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said; nerves, I said. Then I asked myself, "What's General Motors got to be nervous about?" "Overproduction," I says. "Collapse."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have agreed to go into the service for the war ... [feeling] that this was a just and necessary war and that it demanded the who...le power of the country; that I would prefer to go into it if I knew I was to die or be killed in the course of it, than to live through and after it without taking any part in it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now both legs were hanging outside and he had only to let go of what he was holding on to--and he was saved. Before letting go he ...looked down. Some kind of hasty preparations were under way there: the window reflections gathered together and leveled themselves out, the whole chasm was seen to divide into dark and pale squares, and at the instant when Luzhin unclenched his hand, at the instant when icy air gushed unto his mouth, he saw exactly what kind of eternity was obligingly and inexorably spread out before him. The door was burst in. "Aleksandr Ivanovich, Aleksandr Ivanovich," roared several voices. But there was no Aleksandr Ivanovich.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »