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The narrator reflects that, "Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time. Perhaps it would be best if you imagined it as your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occasion, for certainly I cannot suit you all."
One might as well throw water into the sea as to do a kindness to rogues; One law for the rich and another for the poor; Opportunity does not knock until you build a door; One swallow does not make a summer; One who believes in Sword, dies by the Sword; One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two ...
In the 18th century, Samuel Johnson wrote that "whatever can happen to man has happened so often that little remains for fancy or invention" and that people are "all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure". [29]
Fancy recalls her mother's parting words: "Here's your one chance, Fancy, don't let me down" and "If you want out, well, it's up to you." Fancy departs, never to return; shortly thereafter, her mother dies and the baby is placed in foster care. She becomes trapped in her new way of life, her "head hung down in shame," and vows to find a way to ...
The Today show cast's one-word mantras for 2025: Dylan Dreyer "Breathe — so you don't lose it!" Craig Melvin "My one word mantra for 2025 is 'no.' Some people are like, 'Oh, start with yes!' N0 ...
One hypothesis states that the historic Caesar adapted the words of a Greek sentence which to the Romans had long since become proverbial: the complete phrase is said to have been "You too, my son, will have a taste of power", [21] of which Caesar only needed to invoke the opening words to foreshadow Brutus' own violent death, in response to ...
(Hamlet's last words) Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest....so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, (Horatio's discussion of the play's blood-bath)
Sterling K. Brown is done crying every week. Two days before Thanksgiving, Brown is sitting at a long table in a photo studio in Culver City, digging into a take-out lunch as he begins to break ...