“I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.” IfsBelieveDoeMadeImportantHardEnoughTodayPeriodsEternalTragedyRight ThingFalsehoodRecallsOverlooked Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.” PeopleMindStoriesTogetherFallPiecesPossibilityEmotionalPaintingSeriousPeriodsDramaTragedyScaryCoreToneSatireFalling ApartEmbarrassmentLinearTaiwan Author:Ang Lee
“Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.” ArtMatterSidesPeriodsArt IsTragedyImpactInsightContradictionSatisfyingGreat ArtDisturbingPresenting Author:Pauli Murray
“In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.” TryingWarHardBeautifulPeriodsAppreciateTragedyManageErasHard TimesSomalia Author:K'naan
“And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.” WarResultsTechnologyColdPeriodsAchievementDestructionThirdsTragedyCold WarExtinctionScience And Technology Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements
“What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.” YearsSometimesPlayPeriodsTragedyTragicElizabethan Author:George P. Baker
“I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a period tragedy. I'm curious to know what misconceptions this could trigger” KnowsMadeTwoDifferentFilmComedyPeriodsTragedyCuriousFeaturesTriggersSurrealMisconceptionShort Films Author:Sophie Barthes
“To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.” PeopleYearsHas BeensWarRealLastsPoliticalPartyPeriodsRepublicanTragedyPostsDecentRepublican PartyFundamentalistGreat TragedyPost WarGood Political Author:Alec Baldwin
“I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.” PeopleIfsWayBelieveLongI BelieveRoomsLordImaginePlansStagePeriodsEuropeTragedyPreparedObviousStoresSpiteGroceriesProfileDoubtedLockersGrocery StoresLong Periods Of TimeLocker RoomPersonal Tragedy Author:Kurt Warner