Dramatic Quotes

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The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict… — Clark Moustakas
The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
"On unanticipated problems: There's been "a dramatic increase in edibles." And "no one had ever worried about dosage sizes. The original edibles that came out,… — John Hickenlooper
A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to… — William A. Niskanen
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a… — D. M. Thomas
Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of… — Al Barry
The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man;… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation. ...A given… — Pope John Paul II
...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if… — Angela Merkel
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not… — Calvin Coolidge
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making… — Fernand Leger
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write… — Miller Williams
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict. — James Frey
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to… — Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject;… — Ansel Adams
The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression are far too… — Anna Lindh
Yes, last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in Chicago]. And this year we are already outpacing last year's numbers. Now,… — Christie Hefner
We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than… — Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening… — Immanuel Wallerstein

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