If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that… — Jurgen Graf Copy Share Image
The tragedy of India is that the Mahatma, who has numerous streets named after him and has had his statues put up… — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
The most profound question is, "What would I risk dying for?" The natural answer is "for my family." But for most of… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Tragedy occurs when people don't want to give up their leisure, yet they want to be rich. Students don't want to study… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
It was fun figuring out the science of the world as much as we wanted to figure out, and then playing fast… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
“They say it takes a long time to comprehend a tragedy. You're numb. You can't adequately accept the grim reality. Again, that's… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.” — Turcois Ominek Copy Share Image
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It's always time to tell a story like 'Candyman.' Which is the big tragedy about the tale in the first place. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
“When I was a teenager in Boston, a man on the subway handed me a card printed with tiny pictures of hands… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
