The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history. — Ward Connerly Copy Share Image
Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and… — Sam Francis Copy Share Image
I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been… — Roger Casement Copy Share Image
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits -… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want… — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry!" Piggy cried, knowing for certain now that he could never return. That he had a promise to keep in the… — Diana Henstell Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
(1/2)I can't blame you. This world is so difficult. It used to be so safe from harm sooo safe you can keep… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is tragic to lose someone close, but having that reminder to take advantage of every opportunity that life gives you. — Nick Viall Copy Share Image
In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation… — Jo Bonner Copy Share Image
I like to believe I play tragic heroes - characters that are torn between the good and bad, the black and the… — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
“The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic… We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society… — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
![“I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose [a child] cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them.” quote by Kim Basinger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/511/kim-basinger-7530_children_i-ve-played-a-mother-many-times-even-in_2958111.jpg)
