The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Whenever I'd seen Greek tragedy done with masks and declamations, it brought me out in a rash. — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the UPA is not that it didn't do anything, but that it is not able to take credit for… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“I should not act better than anybody, but sure as hell, NOBODY’S better than ME!” — Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin Copy Share Image
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes… — Alan Gottlieb Copy Share Image
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love,… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“I think that the process of giving your true love to someone, mainly surrounds the act of opening a door inside that's… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
