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
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.' — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
Sorry I can't today... My sisters friends mothers fathers sons grandsons uncles fish died. And yes, it was tragic — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Souls soar high above reach, Hands extend but never touch, Words exchanged in dulcet tones, Tis a fated moment to understand one's… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose. — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
The end of Students for a Democratic Society is viewed by me and a lot of other people as a terrible sorry… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid...These schools should get… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up… — Ian Wooldridge Copy Share Image
The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work… — Jan Phillips Copy Share Image
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked… — Leslie Easterbrook Copy Share Image
I was supposed to do The Joy Of Sex with John Belushi, but the week before we were gonna start filming, he… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous… — David O. Russell 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
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
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
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
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