“Tragedy did that—brought people together in ways you could never force.” — Nancy Naigle Copy Share Image
One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“He hadn't known her, didn't know her, of course. There wasn't the time.” — Alexander Freed Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary. — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“These things happen. And we say to ourselves, “Never again.” And a hundred years pass. And they happen. Again.” — Qntm Copy Share Image
I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
When I learned about this tragedy that's happening in Midway - you know, these birds whose stomachs are filled with handfuls of… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
Fear makes us do things we would otherwise never agree to do, and people can be emotionally manipulated into believing something during… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another… — K'naan Copy Share Image
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
If you enjoy reading, writing, learning, and sharing what you have learned, don't hesitate to look for a life where you can… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I've thought from the start that a parallel federal investigation into the death of Michael Brown is important. I also believe that… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
“I was girly and friendly and my family life was happy but many days I felt like I was on the inside… — Kimberly Novosel Copy Share Image
My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window… — Arthur F. Burns Copy Share Image
Write it on your forehead, write it on your heart, on your third chakra, on your second chakra and your first chakra.… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply… — Carl R. Trueman Copy Share Image
In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well,… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones.… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Tragedy always moves our story forward in a way shalom could never accomplish.” — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
You don't have to wait for a tragedy to occur to rush to help those in need. — Robert Kraft Copy Share Image
“There is no tragedy without commitment; no negation even, without it.” — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or a goddamn wish fulfillment.” — Brian McGreevy Copy Share Image