#drama

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too. ↗

— Doug Davidson

#happy #life #lose #make #moments

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon) ↗

— Naomi Novik

#dramatic-announcements #revenge #beauty

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#contain #does #drama #feudal #few

Culture clash is terrific drama. ↗

— Ken Follett

#culture #drama #terrific

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#dramatic #good #many #screaming #situations

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#always #commitment #consulted #dramas #encourage

My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#causing #consequences #country #crisis #deserves

Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#been #classes #drama #going #i

People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#dramatic #i #people #stuff #surprised