Quotes About Crucibles

#1. It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.

Terry Pratchett

#2. I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

Audre Lorde

#4. Emergencies are crucibles that contain and reveal the daily, slower-burning problems of medicine and beyond - our vulnerabilities; our trouble grappling with uncertainty, how we die, how we prioritize and divide what is most precious and vital and limited; even our biases and blindnesses.

Sheri Fink

#5. ...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon.

James Fenimore Cooper

#6. Do you think if two people liked the same thing, it could bring them closer together?"
"Certainly ... Take classical music, for instance ... Two people who shared a love for Beethoven could become very close ... "
"How about TV?

Charles M. Schulz

#7. I absolutely don't want to suggest that women are unreliable because we're mothers - on the contrary. But the question of who brings up the kids has a material effect on all women's careers.

Beeban Kidron

#8. We forget more than we remember, we assume more than we know.

Marty Rubin

#9. Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

Prince

#10. Yes, this little vacation was just what the doctor ordered, if that doctor was of the philosophy of running away from your problems. I needed space, I needed to clear my head, and I needed to get back on track. Somehow, somewhere, I'd fallen off course.

Ophelia London

#11. From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

Gautama Buddha

#12. The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

Bram Fischer

#13. I would, for once, focus on me

Elizabeth Eulberg

#14. Organized, yeah. And those who are so sure that their God is the right God that they believe it's ok to kill another person who doesn't believe in their God.

Rachel Weisz