To "know your place" is a good idea in politics. That is not to say "stay in your place" or "hang on to your place," because ambit...ion or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place--a feel for one's own position in the control room--is useful in gauging what you should try to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Miss Dudley ... gives one the idea of a lightly-sparred yacht in mid- ocean; unexpected; you ask yourself what the devil she is d...oing there. She sails gaily along, though there is no land in sight and plenty of rough weather coming. She never read a book, I believe, in her life. She tries to paint, but she is only a second-rate amateur and will never be any thing more, though she has done one or two things which I give you my word I would like to have done myself. She picks up all she knows without an effort and knows nothing well, yet she seems to understand whatever is said. Her mind is as irregular as her face, and both have the same peculiarity. I notice that the lines of her eyebrows, nose and mouth all end with a slight upward curve like a yacht's sails, which gives a kind of hopefulness and self-confidence to her expression. Mind and face have the same curves."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And though that other question that I asked and can't Remember any more is going to move still farther upward, casting... Its shadow enormously over where I remain, I can't see it. Enough to know that I shall have answered for myself soon, Be led away for further questioning and later returned To the amazingly quiet room in which all my life has been spent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns... With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that is necessary to do with this drink is to place it in an open saucer on the window sill and inhale deeply from across the ...room. In about eight seconds the top of the inhaler's head rises slowly and in a dignified manner until it reaches the ceiling where it floats, bumping gently up and down. The teeth then drop out and arrange themselves on the floor to spell "Portage High School, 1930" the eyes roll upward and backward, and a strange odor of burning rubber fills the room.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unus...ed power of whatever kind. This is the restlessness of the germ within the seed, struggling upward and downward towards its proper life. ... it is a striving full of pain, the cutting of tender flesh by the fetters of the captive as he struggles against their pitilessness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair,... Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward to God's throne in loud access Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness, In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare Of the absolute Heavens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. O...h! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ...ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »