In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution,… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“And does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?No, that’s too grand, too considered a process.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Let's recall Bosnia in 1995. As we know well, the European peacekeeping contingent, represented by the Dutch troops, did not want to… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures… — Bill Simmons Copy Share Image
I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a moment, in every young girl's life, whether it happens with your family, or a tragedy or death… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Some people's glasses are half full. I'm the one drinking them. Some people have forgotten that Pluto is still a planet. I… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams ‘If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!’ And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If Trump were to go ahead with a renewed policy of hostility toward Iran, it would immediately raise tensions, and could quickly… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
To be what is called happy, one should have (1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to… — Cyprian Norwid Copy Share Image
A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of Hetty is a ‘collide’26 between the free will and male dominant society or nobility27 or religion. If her conduct… — Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar Copy Share Image
There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there really are no… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity… — Christy A. Campbell Copy Share Image
Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world,… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
![“I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed…” quote by Jane Goodall](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c2b/jane-goodall-950_action_i-believe-that-the-tragedy-like-terror-a_2847091.jpg)
![“How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up having to tell two distinct stories, which is never the ultimate way to create a great serialized drama. So then, of course, we had the tragedy with Andy [Whitfield], which…” quote by Chris Albrecht](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/572/chris-albrecht-37043_antagonist_how-do-you-get-the-protagonists-and-anta_630615.jpg)
