The Crucible Parris Selfish Quotes & Sayings

February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down. — Katherine Paterson

I've always found that if you live in a cramped place, you have cramped thoughts. — Craig Taylor

I don't know why people are so shy about expressing openly in front of the world their longing for each other, the most powerful and tender natural attraction, but they pretend to be proud or indifferent and they don't consider, especially if they're young, that the sands of our life have been measured by God unto the last grain and that every carelessly wasted second of love sinks irreversibly into eternity. — Angel Wagenstein

I had the perfect accident for the perfect idea. I was rendered immobile where the only thing I could do is mess with my computer. — Harry Knowles

It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken. — Mary Lambert

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit ... If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it - you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world. — Harry Crews

New York is full of crazy people, and I like that. — Jamie Bell

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent. — Anthony Bourdain

So, suspecting that Nero had a contract on her, she got herself Mithridatized against the poisons that would have been available to her son's underlings. Like Mithridates, Agrippina eventually died by more mechanical methods as her son (supposedly) had assassins slay her, thus providing us with the small but meaningful lesson that one cannot be robust against everything. And, two thousand years later, nobody has found a method for us to get "fortified" against swords. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it. — Leigh-Allyn Baker

It just supports my personal opinion that he's a wacko — Trenton Lee Stewart

To see the full miraculous essentiality of the color blue is to be grateful with no necessity for a word of thanks. To see fully, the beauty of a daughter's face is to be fully grateful without having to seek a God to thank him. — David Whyte

Everybody loses the thing that made them. — Quvenzhane Wallis

We have that feeling that life could have been other, different, better in a way impossible to articulate, yet we sense there was another road we missed. — Chloe Thurlow

Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet they are understood; it is read on their brow and in their eyes; it is seen through their breast; they are transparent. — Jean De La Bruyere