I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were. — James Langevin Copy Share Image
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic. — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I see this beautiful and tragic world, and I do my best to describe it, because it's been crushing to me since… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
Life can be very funny and very tragic. Everyone has stuff that they've been through that makes up whatever fire it is… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive… — Robert Fagles Copy Share Image
Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the… — Elmer Kelton Copy Share Image
Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing. — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
“If not towards his case to give him glimpses of what could be a happy future, it stayed back at least to… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is -… — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
“Yeah, but I don’t know. There is something about the tragic stories of Shakespeare. It’s as if we all know how it… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“God help us, God help all of us, each one, every one, all of us'. Patrick Hamilton at the concusion of 'The… — Patrick Hamilton Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
