To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. — Jacky Ickx Copy Share Image
“Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“there are no winners in a tragedy, only people struggling to survive the aftermath.” — Ruth Cardello Copy Share Image
Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate. — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes. — Nicholas Jarecki Copy Share Image
“The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Worries typically follow such lines, a narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Copy Share Image
People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes… — Steve Coogan 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
You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Did you see, after this horrific tragedy in Boston, that [Barack] Obama cannot utter the word 'terrorist.' It's not politically correct. He… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
“She wanted to touch him, to throw her arms around him — but something held her back. Maybe it was the fear… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager. — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy. — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image