We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that… — Susan George Copy Share Image
Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How beautiful and horrible life is, Hema thought; too horrible to simply call tragic. Life is worse than tragic." p 108” — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness. — Prince Hassan bin Talal Copy Share Image
It seems that Argentina is incapable of looking critically at its tragic military adventure in the Falklands. — Pepe Eliaschev Copy Share Image
When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it. — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of my dear friend Ronni Chasen. I have had the honor of working with… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
“My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedom had vanished. I… — Belinda Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Maybe one of the monsters ate him," Daphne whimpered. "That would be awesome," Puck said. Sabrina flashed him an angry look. "Awesome… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
It is very sad about Michael Jackson, much as in the tragic cases of Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole and other celebrities who… — Grace Park Copy Share Image
If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
The bigger problem still is that it determines in many ways what movies get made in the first place. Because as sources… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings,… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“I wish it didn’t have to hurt you,” she says. “Do you?” “Of course. Believe me, Cassio. I never wanted to be… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If not for a dumb beast's incomprehension at its own destruction beneath the loving hands of two heartbroken children.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Akri won't let me eat any of them nasty gods. What's the world coming to when a demon gots to beg for… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
My cousin was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, and it's just a really tragic disease, and as of yet there is no cure,… — Nick Robinson Copy Share Image
My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“And the whole town just stood there crying, Looking at the darkness, For something wholesome and good” — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
