Crucible quotes
52 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know that I can do it."
"I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned."
"The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust."
"I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it."
"Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically."
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"Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail"
"Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer."
"The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone."
"I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min"
"Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone."
"Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it."
"He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!"
"There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more."
"Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now."
"HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit"
"It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth."
"Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red Reverberance of hail upon the dead Thunder like an exploding crucible!"
"Cities are the crucible of civilization."
