Epic Quotes - Page 14

• Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3)

  David Bentley Hart

  Church, Desire, Way

  David Bentley Hart (2004). “The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth”, p.17, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• All bad writers are in love with the epic.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we’re witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.

  Scott Lynch

  Unique, Thinking, Two

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• But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.

  Georgette Heyer

  Real, Laughing, Tragedy

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• I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations to determine the course of my life. I had decided at a much younger age that several of my beliefs should determine the course of my life...I...believe that Waengongi, the Creator, has an epic script into which my minute presence has been written.

  Steve Saint

  Regret, Believe, Long

  Steve Saint (2010). “End of the Spear”, p.144, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

  Brian Swimme

  Change, Simple, Collaboration

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• In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform. There's a strong tempation to close the platform, because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say 'That's really exciting.'

  Gabe Newell

  Strong, Order, Google

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going.

  Michael Shermer

  Age, Stories, Who We Are

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.161, Macmillan

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• [Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

  Edward Forbes

  Character, Science, Preparation

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• The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

  Stephen King

  Movie, Writing, Sisterhood

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013

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• Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Work, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.565, Рипол Классик

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• She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.

  Kristin Hannah

  Letting Go, Mother, Children

  Kristin Hannah (2011). “Night Road”, p.13, Macmillan

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• whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Writing, Kissing, Tragedy

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• You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mean

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.310, Dell

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• Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it. Or don’t imagine it. Look outside. Human language is our attempt at navigating God’s language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants.

  N.D. Wilson

  Running, Climbing, Building Houses

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• I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Writing, Past

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• Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memorable, Doubt, Scope

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Money, Writing, Taste

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.106, Ballantine Books

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• Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Fun, Has Beens

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• One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Life, Book

  "Something Cool: Alec Soth's The Last Days Of W" by Anya Yurchyshyn, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2009.

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• No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Las Vegas, Mind

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.89, Vintage

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• People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, People, Puppy

  "This explains Joss perfectly" by Joss Whedon, whedonesque.com. February 14, 2006.

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• A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

  "Steven Wright Special". Comedy, 1985.

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• Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Motivational, Family

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2010

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• Does it hurt?” He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. “Only when I laugh.” “I’ll try not to be funny.” “Epic fail, beautiful.

  Rachel Caine

  Beautiful, Hurt, Laughing

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath”, p.81, Allison & Busby

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