The Crucible Parris Selfish Quotes

#1. Don't make promises when you are motivated or happy. Don't make decisions when you are nervous or upset.

Ehab Atalla

#2. [I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.

G.H. Hardy

#3. I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

Mark Haddon

#4. It's for Carson. (Margery)
And I repeat what I said. Just what I need, a bunch of drunk fucks working on me. Remind me not to do anything stupid tonight. Oh wait, I'm here. Too late for that warning, huh? (Fury)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. Most of you are predominantly nagual. You have trouble with the physical life because you have devoted more of your attention to the mysterious side of your being.

Frederick Lenz

#6. If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.

Aaron Levie

#7. That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Horace

#8. Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

Charles Fourier

#9. We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals.

Michael Fox

#10. What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

Rodney Dangerfield

#11. The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.

William James

#12. I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take my own life, because when the darkness is over, then what a blessing is the feeblest ray of light!

Valerie Martin

#13. The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

Epictetus

#14. Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#15. I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.

Sam Taylor-Johnson