Crucibles Define Quotes & Sayings

Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious. — Rabindranath Tagore

I was a pale piece of white bread floating in a sea of ethnicity. — Jim Gaffigan

Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open. — Oliver Cromwell

What chatty Madam Shpolyanski mentioned had conjured up Mira's image with unusual force. This was disturbing. Only in the detachment of an incurable complaint, in the sanity of near death, could one cope with this for a moment. In order to exist rationally, Pnin had taught himself ... never to remember Mira Belochkin - not because ... the evocation of a youthful love affair, banal and brief, threatened his peace of mind ... but because, if one were quite sincere with oneself, no conscience, and hence no consciousness, could be expected to subsist in a world where such things as Mira's death were possible. One had to forget - because one could not live with the thought that this graceful, fragile, tender young woman with those eyes, that smile, those gardens and snows in the background, had been brought in a cattle car and killed by an injection of phenol into the heart, into the gentle heart one had heard beating under one's lips in the dusk of the past. — Vladimir Nabokov

Just like in real life, in code, a feature is triggered by an action (command) that results in a sequence of events that might or might not cause side effects. — Greg Young

Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase? — Steven Wright

Material things are so vulnerable to the humiliations of decay. There are some I dearly wish might be spared. — Marilynne Robinson

Wild rejoice in jungles not in cages. — Pushpa Rana

What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I've never come up with a satisfying explanation for why that is. — Nadia Bolz-Weber