I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

Suddenly a treble auto horn tootley-toot-tootled, and, thumbing hopefully, I saw emergent in windshield flash: red lips, streaming silk of blonde hair and -- ah, trembling confusion of hope, apprehension, despair -- the leering face of old Herry.

A man must be able to say, `` Father, I have sinned '', or there is no hope for him.

I left behind me brave men, whom captivity had robbed of all hope.

While my memory holds with relentless tenacity, as I cannot too often stress, to my wrongs, when it comes to my shames, it gestures and jokes and toys with chronology like a prestidigitator in the hope of distracting me from them.

However, I confess my hope that I will be innocent again, not with a pristine, accidental innocence, but rather with an innocence achieved by the slow cutting away of the flesh to reach the bone.

I still have the dress, and I hope to give it to the Smithsonian Institution as a memento, or, as I more fondly hope, to present it to a museum containing articles showing the daily lives of the Presidents -- if I can get it organized.

but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.

Harcourt replied: `` I do really hope you can achieve serenity in the course of time.

Of course I hope Hal can also, but those hopes are much more faint ''.

The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.

She asked if I had other advice and, heady with success, I rushed it in, I hope not too late.

with more time I could have loosened a small burr or cotter pin --

Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.

Alarmed by this display of weapons, I looked toward the bridge and there saw, stretched across the near side, a cordon of policemen, their bicycles forming a roadblock before which stood several French officers in uniform and a small waspish man in a brown derby.

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

`` I have a small sports shop in Strasbourg ''.

Sighting a line from the bridge to a small field directly to the side, I pitched the tent that evening on the stateless `` line '', digging a small trench around it as best I could with a toy spade donated by a neighborhood child.

On Christmas Eve, students brought out two small Christmas trees which I placed on either side of the tent.

`` I never saw men '', Lafayette declared in regard to the riflemen, `` so merry, so spirited, and so desirous to go on to the enemy, whatever force they might have, as that small party in this fight ''.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

I am proud of my country, the small city I live in, my wonderful parents, my friends and my school ; ;

I am the wife of the owner of a small, independent meat market.

The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism The Commission has posted signs in Washington Square saying:

When he got on the pulpit, he asked, Do you know what I am going to say?

Here was a good sermon and much company, but I sleepy, and a little out of order, for my hat falling down through a hole underneath the pulpit, which, however, after sermon, by a stick, and the help of the clerke, I got up again, and then walked out of the church.

Some of his more popular lines were frequently used by platform and pulpit orators, notably his lyrical ' What I Live For ':

For him, " being in the pulpit was like being in the theatre ; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion was worked.

Finally, when asked if he had tried Campari since, " Falwell " answered, " I always get sloshed before I go out to the pulpit.

* " When there is not enough religion in the pulpit to organize a crusade against sin ; nor justice in the court house to promptly punish crime ; nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue ---- if it needs lynching to protect woman ’ s dearest possession from the ravening human beasts ---- then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary.

He is reported to have said to the crowd, “ The Lord knows I go on this ladder with less fear and perturbation of mind, than ever I entered the pulpit to preach .”.

In an interview presented as part of the History Channel documentary, Nazi America: A Secret History, Lane admitted to calling the show and goading Berg into an exchange and stated: " The only thing I have to say about Alan Berg is, regardless of who did it, he has not mouthed his hate-whitey propaganda from his 50, 000-watt zionist pulpit for quite a few years ".

I remember, as a boy, hearing segregation and racism being justified from the pulpit and I could not comprehend this glaring hypocrisy, totally contrary to what Jesus taught.

" Hadhrat Ibn Masood ( Radiahallahu Anhu ) said ," I heard Rasulallaah ( Sallallahu alayhi wasallam ) say from the Mimbar ( pulpit ) that Aayatul Kursi is the Loftiest in the Qur ' aan, and the Ayat which encourages justice and fairness is ( Arabic P12 ) and the Ayat that creates the most fear is ( Arabic P12 ) of the Ayat that creates the most hope of mercy is ( Arabic P12 ).

... this pulpit, I see, is a self-containing stronghold -- a lofty Ehrenbreitstein ... ( Herman Melville, Moby-Dick )

I remember that on Friday night Dad came down from the pulpit and tenderly placed his hand on my shoulder.

Smith's views had not yet developed to this stage in 1917, however, and he joined the social reformist Dominion Labour Party at the end of World War I. Smith supported the strikers from his pulpit during the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, and opened his church to Brandon civic workers who voted for a parallel strike in their city.

He was a consulting editor for the original " Scofield Reference Bible " ( 1909 ) for his friend, C. I. Scofield and was also a friend of D. L. Moody, George Müller ( whose biography ' George Muller of Bristol ' he wrote ), Adoniram Judson Gordon, and C. H. Spurgeon, whom he succeeded in the pulpit of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, from 1891 to 1893.