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
I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
“There’s something tragic about the way the moonlight hits her. It’s like tonight is hers. The black sky looking down and shaking… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic. — Ben Vereen Copy Share Image
The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as… — Jeremy Kyle Copy Share Image
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
As for these 60 years, and in general more than a hundred years, we have had different periods in relations and there… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they… — Frantz Fanon 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
“That was the only tragic thing about books: they changed people. All except the truly evil, who did not become better fathers,… — Nina George Copy Share Image
All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Employers, have you ever stopped to reckon what the goodwill of your workers is worth? ... In most large concerns it would… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Something is fundamentally amiss when you refer to a person as illegal. Bottom line. That's why we so easily talk about this… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
The "Green" community, the enviro people, are preoccupied with running all the cars differently. Our techno-grandiosity has us gibbering about high-speed rail… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could… — Ernst Bloch Copy Share Image
If you could press a button and your ego investment was less, the toothache would be less. Or less tragic at least. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to… — Steve Gleason Copy Share Image
“Your love was a vine - enchanting and beautiful, crawling around my heart and up my throat; then it strangled me. Your… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The vast silence of Buddha overtakes and overrules the oncoming roar of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues; it blocks the… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Sorry I cant hang out today. my sisters friends mothers grandpas brothers grandsons uncles fish had died. and yes it was VERY… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that… — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
Great-power politics is tragic because the structure of the international system forces states that seek only to be secure nonetheless to act… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
