Dramatic Quotes - Page 28

• The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.

  Erving Goffman

  Fate, Self, Fundamentals

  "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life,". Book by Erving Goffman, p. 252, 1959.

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• Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

  J. I. Packer

  Criminals, Transition, Inheritance

  J. I. Packer (1997). “Great Grace: A 31-day Devotional”, Servant Publications

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• Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Life, Emotional, Religion

  C NORTHCOTE PARKINSON (1965). “EAST AND WEST”

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• Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It follows that regular physical conditioning should be part of your overall chess training.

  Pal Benko

  Training, Body, Chess

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• The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

  Pete Townshend

  Writing, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Play, Stories, Violence

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.179, University of Georgia Press

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• A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

  Jane McGonigal

  Oil, Availability, Decrease

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• Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily in tiny doses - relinquishing a pointless worry, getting wise to a self-destructive habit, serving notice on a cruel notion about yourself that has previously seemed justified. The beginning of forgiveness is alertness to false ideas.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Wise, Healing, Ideas

  D. Patrick Miller (2009). “The Way of Forgiveness: Letting Go, Easing Stress, and Building Strength”, p.48, Fearless Books

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• The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When they do, competition for what remains will trigger dramatic economic and geopolitical events; in the end, it may be impossible for even a single nation to sustain industrialism as we have know it in the twentieth century.

  Richard Heinberg

  Competition, Environmental, Energy

  Richard Heinberg (2003). “The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies”, New Society Pub

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• Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Real, Bodybuilding, College

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• Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

  George Orwell

  Business, Games, Ethical

  1944 Raffles and Miss Blandish.

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• Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Two, Enemy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.

  Thomas Bowdler

  Daughter, Regret, Book

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• Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Self, Triangles

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.14, Penguin

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• The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation or simply its steady development, but the drastic and dramatic birth of new creation from the womb of the old.

  N. T. Wright

  Mind, Development, Stewardship

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• All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary significance may not be seen (except afterwards, by historians) until the last great step. In many cases the full potentiality and force of a most radical step in such a sequence of transformations may not even be manifest to its author.

  I. Bernard Cohen

  Science, May, Lasts

  I. Bernard Cohen (1983). “The Newtonian Revolution”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

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• It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Men, Creative, Novelists

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.

  Renata Adler

  Garden, Air, Shots

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• Nothing is more dramatic than a well-placed pause.

  Carmine Gallo

  Wells, Pauses

  Carmine Gallo (2010). “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• There is no more dramatic accessory than a perfect lip. It is the focus of the face and it has the power to define a woman's whole look.

  Tom Ford

  Perfect, Focus, Accessories

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• David Agus is one of America's great doctors and medical researchers, a man dedicated to improving the health of as many people as he can. Written in a style and format that will truly engage readers, The End of Illness presents a dramatic, new way of thinking about our own health-a way that could lead to greatly improving the quality of life for millions, starting right now.

  Al Gore

  Men, Thinking, America

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• Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

  Robert Frost

  Drama, Needs, Form

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.99, Harvard University Press

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• For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

  Pablo Picasso

  Reality, Splits, Action

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Men, Two

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• The seventh day of creation is the most eloquent and insightful as to the nature of God. From a literary perspective, the Sabbath forms the pinnacle of the story. Like the dramatic kiss of a soldier returning from war, this is the moment we’re not meant to miss. In choosing rest as the grand finale, God reveals himself as one driven by neither anxiety nor fear but one who finds gladness in both the work of creation and the creation of work.

  Margaret Feinberg

  War, Kissing, Perspective

  FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Dec 02, 2012

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