The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years ...of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That strain again, it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound... That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. Enough, no more, 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The primary imperative for women who intend to assume a meaningful and decisive role in today's social change is to begin to perce...ive themselves as having an identity and personal integrity that has as strong a claim for being preserved intact as that of any other individual or group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am willing, for a money consideration, to test this physical strength, this nervous force, and muscular power with which I've be...en gifted, to show that they will bear a certain strain. If I break down, if my brain gives way under want of sleep, my heart ceases to respond to the calls made on my circulatory system, or the surcharged veins of my extremities burst--if, in short, I fall helpless, or it may be, dead on the track, then I lose my money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like figures on an ancient clock, Warrior, or saint, or clown... (All's one to the machine) that wake When each stale hour is done, And with preliminary whirr Play their allotted role, Stiffly advance, engage, retire Trembling a little still, So blandly nodding Death and I Nearer and nearer march, At the click of night and the click of day, -- Click-clack! We approach, we approach!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A famous theatrical actress Played best in the role of malefactress.... Yet her home-life was pure Except, to be sure, A scandal or two just for practice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes my wife complains that she's overwhelmed with work and just can't take one of the kids, for example, to a piano lesson. ...I'll offer to do it for her, and then she'll say, "No, I'll do it." We have to negotiate how much I trespass into that mother role--it's not given up easily.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The role of the stepmother is the most difficult of all, because you can't ever just be. You're constantly being tested--by the ch...ildren, the neighbors, your husband, the relatives, old friends who knew the children's parents in their first marriage, and by yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its p...eculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »