An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confr...onted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logicall...y the next step would be to say to our commonwealth's criminals, "I disagree that it's all right to rob and murder, but naturally I respect your opinion." Tolerance is only complacence when it makes no distinction between right and wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both of us felt more anxiety about the South--about the colored people especially--than about anything else sinister in the result.... My hope of a sound currency will somehow be realized; civil service reform will be delayed; but the great injury is in the South. There the Amendments will be nullified, disorder will continue, prosperity to both whites and colored people will be pushed off for years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,... . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,... This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and t...o contraries; and whatever contrarity is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »