A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that e...lasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from Nature alone. It was the choicest gift of heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this--as in other ways--they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings... record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I wo...uld have something that can dissipate the vis inertiae and give elasticity to the muscles.... We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A photo of someone else's childhood, a garden in another country--world... he had no part in and has no power to imagine: yet the old man who has failed his memory keens over the picture-- 'Them happy days-- gone--gone for ever!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? In...side? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not a jogger. I'm not a photo opportunity kind of person. I am at an age where I have better sense than to make a fool of mys...elf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was the girl of the chain letter,... the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so as to sec...ure greater elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade and to prevent the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassment of a financial panic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was a lucky fox that left his tail in the trap. The muskrat will gnaw his third leg off to be free. No wonder man has lost his ...elasticity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »