The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Usually climax scenes have emotional or action scenes but Podaa Podi' has a climax with a dance performance. — Vignesh Shivan Copy Share Image
Now I love the act of creating a new image. When everything comes together, it feels like ecstasy. It's like a climax. — Mario Sorrenti Copy Share Image
The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax. — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
Oh, is this the climax? Well, I hope you don't mind if I fake it! -Buffy Gilmore — Scary Movie Copy Share Image
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Everyone has a 'Majnu' in them. It's not about the sad or happy climax. It's a term we use to define someone… — Nani Copy Share Image
In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Our break-up had been a resounding anti-climax. I wanted to be wept over, bitterly. I wanted to be fought for. Mourned, or… — Catherine Sanderson Copy Share Image
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to… — Margaret Craven Copy Share Image
Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if… — Colin Greenland Copy Share Image
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I love to disturb people, because only by disturbing them you can make them think. They have stopped thinking for centuries. Nobody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“No, no,” Evie said. “People won’t pay to see such a poor excuse for a climax. We need a rewrite.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A climax wouldn't be an anticlimax, if, when, I was able, to be there, before time struck, Time, once again.” — Petra Hermans Copy Share Image
“A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.” — Barbara Branden Copy Share Image
“They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder why it is so miserable?” — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
An album is not like an hour-long DJ set, you know, hit after hit and then build up to one big climax. — Hardwell Copy Share Image
More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
“Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just minor stepping stones. — Jon Bellion Copy Share Image
In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
“Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In 'Chattam,' the climax was good and that was enough for the film. But the film was not promoted well. — Jagapathi Babu Copy Share Image
The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“And in that full day, while Jed slept and woke and worked and loved, the forces in the world around him rushed… — Michael Bunker Copy Share Image
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image