“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
When we look at the situation in Ferguson, Missouri and the tragic death of Michael Brown, we are reminded of the importance… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major… — Samuel Roth Copy Share Image
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
When America does not lead, the world is a dangerous and a tragic place. This is a bad deal. [Barack] Obama broke… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
“Samuel, I've never considered our relationship to be tragic. I will always remember you as my first love. The first guy who… — Angela Richardson Copy Share Image
Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I could be dead or something even more tragic could have happened, but by God's grace I am still alive. I was… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
My friend died. (Astrid) Died how? (Zarek) Mmm, he had parvo. (Astrid) Isn’t that a dog’s disease? (Zarek) Yes. It was tragic.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur,… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image