Quotes About Denouement

#1. It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. I wanted to know the denouement of your life story. I have no interest in the narrative.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Focus on the denouement of the purpose of life and act on the narrative.

Debasish Mridha

#4. There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.

Kathryn Bigelow

#5. A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.

Nancy Kress

#6. The denouement is perhaps the most moving scene of her show Letting Go of God.

Richard Dawkins

#7. She felt the adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez strumming at her inner thighs like a guitar, and then slowly moving upwards until it wrapped around her heart in its denouement.

Lawren Leo

#8. More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction.

Greg Van Eekhout

#9. The author also participated in Operation Uphold Democracy (in Haiti, a year after the catastrophic denouement of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia). ... Hope was not restored in Somalia. Democracy was not upheld in Haiti.

Stan Goff

#10. Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

Emanuel Lasker

#11. The conventional Aristotelian plot proceeds by means of a protagonist, an antagonist, and a series of events comprising a rising action, climax and denouement.

John Kessel

#12. When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust; I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement.

Henry James

#13. I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement.

Michelle Dockery

#14. The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.

H.P. Lovecraft

#15. Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering.

Catherynne M Valente

#16. Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

Anonymous

#17. There will, in my view, come a time when there has to be some kind of political denouement inside China, because the newly enriched generation might put up with being told what to do by their rulers - but their children, who will take prosperity for granted, will not.

John Howard

#18. There's no i in team, mister!

Darynda Jones

#19. Position your daily actions so time is working for instead of against you.

Jeff Olson

#20. what happens on the lower level is responsible for what happens on the higher level, it is nonetheless irrelevant to the higher level. The higher level can blithely ignore the processes on the lower level.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#21. I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we can by trying to raise margins. It's a more patient approach, but we think it leads to a stronger, healthier company. It also serves customers much, much better.

Jeff Bezos

#22. It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.

Ben Bradlee

#23. But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.

Alexander McCall Smith

#24. To be conscious is inevitably to be a hypocrite. We can stomach our own kind, or just enough of them who either prove useful to us or are not handily destructible, only by the terms of the following contract: we will eat some of the other fellow's excrement if he will eat some of ours.

Thomas Ligotti

#25. The best part is if you dunk on someone at home and they show it on the replay!

Blake Griffin

#26. NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.

Stephen Rodrick

#27. she knew, the most important battles for dignity, pride, and progress were fought with the simplest of actions. It

Margot Lee Shetterly

#28. We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson