Top 77 The Crucible Quotes
#1. For example, I can doubt that 2 + 2 = 4; however, my doubting does not change the equation. When I test out that formula and find that it is true, then that becomes my reality. How can anything become real until it is tested in the crucible of doubt?
David W. Earle
#2. We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.
Theodore Roosevelt
#3. Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Tony Robbins
#4. Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.
Tom Althouse
#5. ...there were eighty or so people gathered to listen to this utter shit as though it were their daily language passing through the crucible of the human sprint and emerging purified, redeemed.
Ben Lerner
#8. There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.
Bob Lefsetz
#9. If the most precious are tried in the fire, are we to escape the crucible? If the diamond must be vexed upon the wheel, are we to be made perfect without suffering?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#10. A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic
Margaret Weis
#11. I think He intends to try you like gold in the crucible, so as to number you amongst His most faithful servants. Therefore you must lovingly embrace all occasions of suffering, considering them as precious tokens of His love. To suffer in silence and without complaint is what He asks of you.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
#12. Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.
Cathryn Louis
#13. I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'
Gina Bellman
#14. You know, the crisis passes, the crucible cools, and there we are, slightly improved, not much altered.
Amy Bloom
#15. 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!
Winona Ryder
#16. If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials.
Jane Smiley
#17. Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.
T.R. Fehrenbach
#18. Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith - the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.
William Osler
#19. 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!
Patrick Rothfuss
#20. Doing what you love, with those you love, is an adventurous type of success. The kind that can not be taken away, often discovered by those who have had much taken away, and saw it as an opportunity to re-access their path, and reset from the crucible of shared and beneficial dreams.
Tom Althouse
#21. I was eleven years old, and I'd lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.
Rainbow Rowell
#22. important question was: What has this pain come to teach me? The answer had arisen from the place where all wisdom is born - out of the crucible of heartbreak.
Susan Plunket
#23. Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite layers, like a genetic fingerprint of memories that were once fluid, but have since crystallized out from the crucible of possibility
Jamal Mahjoub
#24. 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.
Israel Zangwill
#25. Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#26. 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.
John Hawkes
#27. 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.
Simone Weil
#28. Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted
Tariq Ramadan
#30. 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.
William Peter Blatty
#31. 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.
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
#33. ...small bits of our day are profoundly meaningful
because they are the site of our worship. The crucible of our formation is in the monotony of our daily routines.
Tish Harrison Warren
#34. Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.
Jodie Foster
#35. 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.
Donald Johanson
#36. Belief creates, Arathan. So you have been taught. The god cannot exist until it is worshipped, until it is given shape, personality. It is made in the crucible of faith.
Steven Erikson
#37. The grace of God has been tested in the crucible of human experience, and has been found to be more than an equal for the problems and sins of humanity.
Billy Graham
#38. Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward.
Bill Jensen
#39. I have to get stronger, harder, and faster. The only way to get hard enough to walk the Apocalypse Road is in the crucible of battle.
Cedric Nye
#40. Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.
Deepak Chopra
#41. 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, 'Let's make sure we remember this.'
John Benjamin Hickey
#42. Thus, the entire rationale for overseas expansion was shaped in a domestic crucible. Economic need, Anglo-Saxon mission, and the progressive impulse joined together nicely to justify a more active role for government in promoting foreign expansion. To
Emily Rosenberg
#43. Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.
Philip Schultz
#44. When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
#45. 'Crucible' was going to be a 'passing of the torch' story. So something that was big enough to be worthy of that, that could show these characters being changed - along with their respective outlooks about life, the galaxy, and the Force - was Mortis.
Troy Denning
#46. The perplexity, the potential - God's own crucible was not for angels.
Johnny Worthen
#47. My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.
Alex Lemon
#48. With a metal heart
I came to this life,
My head was a crucible, full of elixir.
Pearl by pearl
My heart was poured,
Drop by drop
My head was splashed.
The world was entirely a magnet.
Hersh Saeed
#49. This life, this entire world, was a crucible. It was the crusade of their times, and they were the knights, the warriors.
Nancy Holder
#50. Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
#51. When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
Gregory Maguire
#52. The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#53. It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given.
Wintley Phipps
#54. If we look on heaven and earth as a single crucible, and on the creator as the founder, would there be any place I could not go? When it is time, I will fall asleep, and when the right time comes, I will wake up again.
Zhuangzi
#55. Jesus came into the world not to run us through the how-to-get-to-heaven crucible, but instead to gather creation under two bloody wings.
Sean Norris
#56. It was that time of the century when the idea of a gentleman had almost become myth. The Great War had concussed the world. The unbearable news of sixteen million deaths rolled off the great metal drums of the newspapers. Europe was a crucible of bones.
Colum McCann
#57. 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.
William Osler
#58. In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.
Hugh Nibley
#59. 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.
Joseph Joubert
#60. 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.
Abigail Williams
#61. During the first century A.D., Alexandria was a veritable hotbed of mystical activity, a crucible in which Judaic, Mithraic, Zoroastrian, Pythagorean, Hermetic, and neo-Platonic doctrines suffused the air and combined with innumerable others.
Michael Baigent
#62. 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
Samuel Johnson
#63. 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.
Michael Porter
#64. Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day.
Arthur Miller
#65. Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.
Andrew Davidson
#66. It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#67. Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?
Les Wexner
#68. The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.
Alfred Harker
#69. Don't be sad that one day or another you met someone who undermined your capabilities and sapped your energy, what that person did could be the strongest crucible that forged a great leader
Ahmed Elkadi
#70. 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.
Steve Buyer
#71. The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.
Kathleen Norris
#72. Life has no adjective. It's a mixture in a strange crucible but that allows me on the end, to breathe. And sometimes to pant. And sometimes to gasp. Yes. But sometimes there is also the deep breath that finds the cold delicateness of my spirit, bound to my body for now.
Clarice Lispector
#73. 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!
Allen Tate
#74. He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
Arthur Miller
#75. Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.
Robert Kennedy
#76. America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Israel Zangwill
#77. It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
