Crucible American Dream Quotes & Sayings

As for what, exactly, was said about the future, all I can say is that, speaking as indirectly as we were, transferred between us was only a feeling, or a shift in feeling, something like the sense of solid ground underfoot after walking for days or even months on spongy bog, a shift that I would be hard pressed, both then and now, but especially now, all these years later, to put into words. — Nicole Krauss

One thing which I know about this world of glamour is that it is better to have people talking about you than not being talked about at all. — Sonakshi Sinha

I can tell you the secret to happiness in one word: progress. — Tony Robbins

[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition. — Gloria Steinem

Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness. — Rumi

Words: with them you can do and undo as you please. — Elena Ferrante

Who needs dignity? Pride? They're overrated. When you've got nothing, you've got nothing left to lose. — Emma Chase

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair. — Neil Diamond

My mother has few stories to tell about these times. What I remember from them is the odd look I would sometimes catch in her eyes. It struck me, for the first time in my life, that my mother might be afraid of me. I could not even reassure her, because I was only dimly aware of the nature of her distress, but there must have been something going on in me that was beyond her: at any time I might open my mouth and out would come a language she had never heard before. I had become a visitant from outer space, a time-traveller come back from the future, bearing news of a great disaster. — Margaret Atwood

But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily ... he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel. — Virginia Woolf

Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be. — Israelmore Ayivor

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way. — Alex Kapranos

Everyone wants their kid to grow up and go to Harvard or be a
quarterback for the Patriots. No one ever looks at their baby and thinks, Oh, I hope my kid grows up
and becomes a freak. I hope he gets to school every day and prays he won't catch anyone's
attention. But you know what? Kids grow up like that every single day. — Jodi Picoult