Arcs Quotes

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.

Kurt Vonnegut

Movie, Drama, Book

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On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Robert Browning

Broken Heart, Perfect, Heaven

'Abt Vogler' (1864) st. 9

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If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.

Annie Proulx

Light, Darkness, Ordinary

Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sad, Justice, Elbows

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In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.

Tim Cook

Love You, Thinking, Long

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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

Theodore Parker

Long, Justice, Oval

Theodore Parker (1895). “Ten Sermons of Religion and Prayers”

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I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

Maureen O'Hara

Saws

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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Indira Gandhi

Games, Cynical, Political

Indira Gandhi (1985). “Selected Thoughts of Indira Gandhi: A Book of Quotes”, p.172, Mittal Publications

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The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Retirement, Impact, Careers

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Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Joan of Arc

Hatred, France, Thrown

Response to interrogation by English, 15 Mar. 1431

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Change isn't optional, and creation isn't something that happened a long time ago and then ended. It's ongoing, and we are invited to be a part of it. The question for us is 'what will we create in this new day?' How will we make it count? How will we nourish the things that matter, and stand in the way of injustice in the small ways that add up to the arc of history? You are invited to participate in the creation of this day.

David LaMotte

Change, Creativity, New Day

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As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

Michael Nesmith

Artist, Thinking, Kind

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I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

Robert Kirkman

Character, Mind

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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. I love being able to see a character go through something and to learn.

Mae Whitman

Character, Love Is, Things I Love

"Mae Whitman,'The Perks Of Being A Wallflower' Star, On Being Cast In 'Arrested Development'" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2012.

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The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Moon, Circles, Perfect

Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Moving, Long, Justice

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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Theodore Parker

Atheist, Eye, Curves

Theodore Parker (1908). “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

Charles Bukowski

Jesus, Style

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When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dark, Power, Night

"Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967.

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Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.

Christopher Meloni

Crazy, Character, Self

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When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Christian, Country, Hate

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A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

Adam Baldwin

Watches, Cookies, Stories

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Doe, Chastity

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If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Richard Russo

Betrayal, Mean, Careers

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I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

Ellen Burstyn

Mother, Thinking, Play

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