In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's no...t poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ev...er murderous obsession.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; an...d at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably... expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and... Rome--not by favor of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »