If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore.… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune… — Mary Hart Copy Share Image
“Are you strange like me, are you insane? Are you the wildfire, that loves pouring rain...” — J. Limbu Copy Share Image
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“It made a romantic tale. The young rouge, cheating death, returning to his grieving lover. But in reality? Ashyn had always known… — Kelly Armstrong Copy Share Image
Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
“I’d accepted my judgment without question. Agreed to live a mortal life. I didn’t know my memories would come with me; didn’t… — Christine Fonseca Copy Share Image
It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be… — Graeme Galton Copy Share Image
I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Why don't you climb down off the cross, take the wood to build a bridge, and get over it! — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
