There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If… — John Powell Copy Share Image
Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history… — Alan S. Kesselheim Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me.… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
“I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You can look at my life and say there’ve been some real tragedies, and there have been. But there’ve also been some… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
