#weeping

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#how #i #like #master #moving

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#even #ii #major #more #needed

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#child #come #fairy #full #hand

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#be true #finished #good #happens #harsh

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #evils #gold #lamentation #less

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#falls #land #might #niagara #our

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.' ↗

— Chris Evans

#am #big #blood #diamond #ed

If you have walked into a museum recently - whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from the police - you may have noticed a type of painting known as a triptych. A triptych has three panels, with something different painted on each of the panels. For instance, my friend Professor Reed made a triptych for me, and he painted fire on one panel, a typewriter on another, and the face of a beautiful, intelligent woman on the third. The triptych is entitled What Happened to Beatrice and I cannot look upon it without weeping. I am a writer, and not a painter, but if I were to try and paint a triptych entitled The Baudelaire Orphans' Miserable Experiences at Prufrock Prep, I would paint Mr. Remora on one panel, Mrs. Brass on another, and a box of staples on the third, and the results would make me so sad that between the Beatrice triptych and the Baudelaire triptych I would scarcely stop weeping all da ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#painting #triptych #weeping #art

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#campaign #dollars #group #half #him

The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing. ↗

— Thomas Hearne

#english #laughing #race #weeping #worst