Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
We made the mistake of trusting the Chinese and then compounded it by allowing our men to go out to face them… — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
The tragedy of too many people is that they cannot allow happiness just to be there; they cannot leave it alone. Their… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
The real tragedy is that we're all human beings, and human beings have a sense of dignity. Any domination by one human… — Yusuf Idris Copy Share Image
I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I think that we should take the tragedy that happened in Newtown and have a full comprehensive dialogue about all issues, whether… — Ann Wagner Copy Share Image
Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“The deep vexation of is inward soul Hath served a dumb arrest upon his tongue; Who, mad that sorrow should his use… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
Whatever you do to recover from a loss, people will be critical because they believe that the only way to recover is… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For many years, I did pantomime with Marcel Marceau. I was a writer for him and got to know very well how… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Copy Share Image
Worries typically follow such lines, a narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
