Contending Quote by Jones Very Download Open image “Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.” — Jones Very ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contending Next Reality This world World
“Hamlet is the tragedy of a man who does not know how to commit a murder. Macbeth is the tragedy of a man who… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going beyond, they… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be. — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty, even a majestic countenance, but when it has "coupled hell" and become crime, it grows increasingly foul and sordid. We love and admire Hamlet so much at the beginning that we tend to forget that he is as… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share
'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
“In view of this, it may seem remarkable that anything as complex as a text of Hamlet exists. The observation that Hamlet was written by Shakespeare and not some random agency only transfers the problem. Shakespeare, like everything else in the world, must have arisen (ultimately) from a homogeneous early universe. Any way you look at it, Hamlet is a… — William Poundstone Copy Share
“In The Gulag Archipelago, for example, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarks that Shakespeare’s evildoers, Macbeth notably among them, stop short at a mere dozen corpses because… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it… — Jones Very Copy Share Image
As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that… — Jones Very Copy Share Image
These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell… — Jones Very Copy Share Image
We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by… — Jones Very Copy Share Image
Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it… — Jones Very Copy Share Image
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet. — Jones Very Copy Share Image
While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God… — George Washington Copy Share Image
History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people. — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week. — Lee Westwood Copy Share Image
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share
The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Christians have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through courageous protest, as happened in Germany, as well, as in compassionate care for the most vulnerable members of society, as Mother Teresa did. In both approaches theology - what one believes about God and human life - matters.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
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