Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe… — Garry McCarthy Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole. — Moshe Katsav 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
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nobody should have to die like these people had. I didn't know each of their circumstances, but I had a good guess.… — Rose Wynters Copy Share Image
One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic… — Tana French 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
The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally… — James Joll Copy Share Image
The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“If e'er again I meet him beard to beard, he's mine or I am his.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I like doing everything - theater and film, radio and TV, comedy and tragedy. I love it all. And I've never really… — Alfred Molina Copy Share Image
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
