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

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

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.

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

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

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!

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

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!

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

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

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

I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned.

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.

In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.

It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.

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

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.

I was raised a right-wing Republican and was about eighteen when I had to admit to myself that in regards to the great domestic crucible of the day, civil rights and racial justice, conservatives were on the wrong side historically and morally, and that it took too much intellectual and psychological jujitsu to pretend otherwise. I didn't want to pretend anymore; I wanted to be on the right side.

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

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

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.

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.

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

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.

The crucible is a dividing line, a turning point, and those who have gone through it feel they are very different from the way they were before. Believing that they have been transformed or have transformed themselves, those who survive the crucible (and many don't) are more confident, more willing to take future risks. That new self-confidence is grounded in the belief that he or she has done something hard and done it well.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.

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

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

I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretence Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes! I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!

We were all forged in the crucible.