The Crucible Personal Integrity Quotes & Sayings

One of the characteristics of modern political life is its professionalization, such that it attracts mainly the kind of people with so great an avidity for power and self-importance that they do not mind very much the humiliations of the public exposure to which they are inevitably subjected. — Theodore Dalrymple

If you're not choosing to live life to the fullest each and every day, then you're allowing yourself to die, one missed moment at a time. I — Rachael Brownell

Odysseus managed to return in secret and slaughter them all - your basic happy homecoming. — Rick Riordan

Our planet ... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb ... Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago. — James Lovelock

American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror. — Betty Friedan

Humanity's special place in the cosmos is one of abandoned claims and moving goalposts. — Frans De Waal

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. — Michael Faraday

Listen up, Wanda. I know exactly what you don't want to be. But we're human, and we're selfish, and we don't always do the right thing. We aren't going to let you go. Deal with it. — Stephenie Meyer

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed. — Miley Cyrus

Shall I show you the door ... or would you rather go out through the wall? - Maris — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt. — William Baziotes

From "Come Rain or Come Shine" by Jan Karon pg. 259
In regard to watching a sunset, "You could tell a lot about people who would stop what they were doin' to watch the Almighty go about his business. — Jan Karon

I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies. — Suzy Menkes