“If your life is like a tragedy it is because you have been neglecting something — most likely yourself.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows,… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and… — George Sterling Copy Share Image
“It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians...What is one more life thrown away in this sad and useless national… — Malachi Ritscher Copy Share Image
One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy.… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Arrogance is a way for a person to cover up shame. After years of arrogance, the arrogant person is so out of… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
“TEIRESIAS: I tell you, king, this man, this murderer (whom you have long declared you are in search of, indicting him in… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“it didn’t matter who you were or what you’d accomplished in life; none of that mattered when tragedy struck. You had no… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
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
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how… — Andrew Shue Copy Share Image
We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone. Since life comes just… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph. — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy. — Charles Tart Copy Share Image
Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“Even the most comic moment contains an element of melancholy; even the deepest tragedy harbors a trace of the ironic.” — Christine Montross Copy Share Image
The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar… — David Folkenflik Copy Share Image
“All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn’t a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
