Crucible Quotes

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.

It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

We have the opportunity now to join in the celebration of possibility, to align ourselves with the forces of life. We’ll need to become skilled at walking the line between urgency and hope, maintaining our balance in a world out of balance. I’m convinced that out of the crucible of crisis, the greatest love story on Earth could be born.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures." A crucible was the vessel in which medieval alchemists attempted to turn base metals into gold. That the alchemists inevitably failed in their audacious attempts doesn't denigrate the power of the crucible as a metaphor for the circumstances that cause an individual to be utterly transformed.

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.

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

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

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

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

There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.

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.

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.

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.

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

With Crucible, any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.

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

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

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

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.

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

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

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.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

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!

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.