In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or com...mon nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to commun...icate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-...century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in powe...r should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is fair to assume that when women in the past have achieved even a second or third place in the ranks of genius they have shown... far more native ability than men have needed to reach the same eminence. Not excused from the more general duties that constitute the cement of society, most women of talent have had but one hand free with which to work out their ideal conceptions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This unlettered man's speaking and writing are standard English. Some words and phrases deemed vulgarisms and Americanisms before,... he has made standard American; such as "It will pay." It suggests that the one great rule of composition--and if I were a professor of rhetoric I should insist on this--is, to speak the truth. This first, this second, this third; pebbles in your mouth or not. This demands earnestness and manhood chiefly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the sc...riptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In America there are two classes of travel--first class, and with children. Travelling with children corresponds roughly to travel...ling third-class in Bulgaria. They tell me there is nothing lower in the world than third-class Bulgarian travel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here far from the city we make our roadside stand And ask for some city money to feel in hand... To try if it will not make our being expand, And give us the life of the moving-pictures' promise That the party in power is said to be keeping from us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »