#lapses

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#because #blessing #characters #collapses #constraints

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life. ↗

— Connie Mack

#baseball #collapses #crumbles #holds #humanity

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#certain #course #critic #entire #entitled

A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#borders #collapses #going #happen #house

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#characterized #convict #corrupt #else #embittered

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#away #collapses #ecosystems #environments #land