“She'd been conceived as a goddess of justice. But this wasn't just. It wasn't right. And her husband's wrongful death would not… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone;… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
The first time I can remember being on a stage in front of an audience was one that came with triumph, adrenaline… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
If you don’t learn how to cry, you cannot be a good Christian. When they posed this question to us – why… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
People are born, they have a limited amount of time going around thinking life is dandy but then, inevitably, tragedy strikes and… — Dominic West Copy Share Image
Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Obama, Bloomberg, and the national gun-ban media frequently exploit tragedy, using fear and lies to sell their agenda to non-gun owners, especially… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch '21 Grams.' I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the… — Richard Flanagan 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
But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
