The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I keep wishing you had had a better life...a different life. But a different life would have made you a different Blue."… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“To be a Christian for ten year and to be no more like Jesus then than at the time of conversion, is… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
“How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You can't tell the story of the thousands of people whose lives were destroyed by Bernie Madoff because there are thousands of… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed… — Howard Warren Buffett 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
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
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
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
It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow. — Anne Heche Copy Share Image
The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am Gods slave, not that of… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite… — Amir Taheri Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy of the Germanic world that Jesus was Judaised, distorted, falsified; and an alien Asiatic spirit was forced upon… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty. — Woody Allen 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
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
I have realized that the moon did not have to be full for us to love it. That we are not tragedies… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to… — Helen Keller 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
Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff… Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling… — Valerie Sayers Copy Share Image
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I for one believe that not enough has been made of the tragedy of the destruction of 6 million Jews. Somebody has… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
