He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summation was set in his mind befor...e the first witness was called. It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who to intimidate; who to trust, who to flatter and court; who to challenge; when to underplay and exactly when to let out all the stops.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl duly set,... When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-laborers could not end: Then lies him down the lubber fend, And stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that, if peop...le could see just how many of us there are, some in very important places, the negative stereotype would vanish overnight. ...It is far more realistic to suppose that, if the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; bu...t practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as n...ear home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the hea...rt to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the vice of our public speaking that it has not abandonment. Somewhere, not only every orator but every man should let out a...ll the length of all the reins; should find or make a frank and hearty expression of what force and meaning is in him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to kn...ow how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a h...arp and a sword in my hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »