Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that… — Ron Brown Copy Share Image
People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
[On being told by a horse show spectator that she looked like Princess Anne:] I think I'm a bit better-looking than she… — Anne, Princess Royal Copy Share Image
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage,… — George Will Copy Share Image
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have… — June Callwood Copy Share Image
I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring because I'm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers… — Susan Hockfield Copy Share Image
I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or… — Alex Prager Copy Share Image
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the… — Kenneth More Copy Share Image
Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
