NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
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
The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and… — David Brenner Copy Share Image
Sometimes people say, do you want a drink? And I say, oh, I'd like to, but I'm a tragic alcoholic. I always… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
“You must save yourself," Tairn demands. "I chose you not as my next but as my last, and should you fall, then… — Rebecca Yarros Copy Share Image
The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I am secretly afraid of animals… I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
“You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow,… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
United have spent all season commemorating the 50th anniversary of Busby's decision to defy the Football League and take the club on… — Andy Hunter Copy Share Image
For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
There are a lot of problems in the world, a lot of tragic things that have to be addressed, economic, medical, political,… — Dean Stockwell Copy Share Image
Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also,… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up. — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that's when the tragic downfall comes, because there… — Kesha Copy Share Image
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
“It is both tragic and strange that people do not value every breath, every smile and every act of love. Life is… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world. — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
