Crucible Quotations

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

As minorities and other immigrant groups become more important to our economy, the inner city is a crucible that gives us an early look at phenomena that are going to be spreading more broadly in the economy over time.

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

For months I'd been trying to convince myself, by convincing everybody back home, that in the crucible of war I'd made that great transition,

Our forefathers were involved in the civil war, and it was the crucible period where the democratic values that we believe in today, and we assert against the terrorists, were first forged,

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!

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.

When we look for the origins of all humanity today, let's not just look at Europe, because I think Africa was the cradle, the crucible that created us as Homo sapiens.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond examines society's intolerance about those who differ, using a witch hunt as the main action of the play. This book stands out as a children's literature classic and we're proud to be able to present it. This material is powerful to young adults the way Arthur Miller's The Crucible is for adults.

Real estate, legal deals, ... It was the crucible of Fort Myers.

Canada gave her all in this war and I think that our understanding of what it means to be Canadian was actually forged in the crucible of the western front, ... And yet, mysteriously, our cinematic record is all but silent on this subject.

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.

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.

A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore.

I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

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.

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.

In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do

I remember when I was doing The Crucible on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, Lets make sure we remember this.

Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.

No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?

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.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

Certainly with The Crucible, what I love is that every role in that is so crucial.But there's something almost comic. I remember there's that line where she says, "I am 18 and a woman, however single," which killed me every time!

Ivo van Hove is directing The Crucible, and rehearses in quite an unusual way. We started rehearsals last week and dived straight into the first act, like, five minutes after we all turned up. No warm-ups. We were very intensely immersed in that whole world on day one. It was quite surreal because I've never done any theater before.

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

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

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.