History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines, — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's easy to forget, given her scandal-tinged life and tragic death, how incredibly talented Whitney Houston was. She holds the world record… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never… — Wallis Simpson Copy Share Image
At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance,… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you feel a need to express yourself, and there is no better way than to go to places where people need… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as… — Sophia Lyon Fahs Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“For a dream to die, something so tragic would have definitely gone wrong! Be careful you don’t kill your own dreams.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else... — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
“I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered,… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Losing Jane was tragic and I thought I'd never get married again, or have more children, or would even ever want to. — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
