In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. — Jacky Ickx Copy Share Image
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late. — William Mather Lewis Copy Share Image
Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager. — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Life engulfs happiness and sadness... We determine the part we want to run with and to avoid tragedy needs strategy. Be wise. — Olajide Oluwatobiloba Copy Share Image
I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, to enable her to bear her life, she needed the accompaniment of an inward music and she could not always… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
No legislation can prevent every tragedy, but we have a duty to take every action possible to mitigate danger to the public… — Mike Johnson 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
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The tragedy is what - given the 'right circumstances,' - normal decent folks, like you and me, will do. This is what… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time: And power, unto itself most commendable, Hath not a tomb so evident… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
As far as the environment is concerned, I am becoming pessimistic because I do not see anybody stepping up and taking the… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Live a life abundant in love and rich in spirit, these are the seeds of a fulfilling existence. Be the safe harbor… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been… — Burt Reynolds Copy Share Image
Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told… — Patrick Madrid Copy Share Image
“Still, death is a great teacher. It's just too harsh. I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy I mined… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
