If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly,… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't… — Jonathan Dimbleby 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
Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more… — Brett Favre Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted;… — Émile Gaboriau Copy Share Image
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
“The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the end I was the clay and she was the sculptor, I thought, it's a shame that we have to live,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The reality is, there is heartbreaking tragedy that has struck American families because people who came into this country illegally are now… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There are huge pluses in Scottish archaeology that you simply don't get elsewhere. Partly that's to do with the tragedy of the… — Tony Robinson 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
In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love,… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
“And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image