If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
“The gods we ourselves have created ruled us for centuries! What a great comedy! And what a great tragedy!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Rather than a great tragedy, the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization.” — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“He wanted to meet her for the first time, over and over...He told himself the story that this was the great tragedy… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer.… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call… — Adrian Tan Copy Share Image
“Ten million dead. Gas. Passchendaele. Let that be now a large figure, now a chemical formula, now an historical account. But dear… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“The great tragedy of our lives seems to be that we are smart enough to ask the questions of meaning but too… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“This is the great tragedy of love—even if you are lucky enough to stumble on it, it never lasts. Every young person… — Hannah Mary Rothschild Copy Share Image
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
