One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right. — Peter Shaffer 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
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
We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is… — Richard Ford 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
“They were still so young they hadn't learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a tragedy.” — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'. — George Chuvalo Copy Share Image
Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, that's good drama - the marriage plot or the tragedy - but the reality of women's lives is that most… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take,… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes… — Alan Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them.” — Elizabeth Harrower 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
