I think we've been programmed from birth to be a certain way - to be demure, to be polite, and to be… — Lauren Ash Copy Share Image
If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
It's that weird need to make tragedy about us. When you look at 9/11, there's people who really died and family members… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
“I will never forget what you did to me. I will never forgive it. I will never stop mourning what you stole… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international… — Park Geun-hye Copy Share Image
A lot of "successful" people are tragedies, because what they've accomplished aren't the things they wanted. Intentionally create the question "how" instead… — Rory Vaden Copy Share Image
The geniuses have created, but they were less: the saints have been, but they created little...A twofold tragedy of creativeness reveals the… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
The tragedy of 9/11 and the bloody scrambling-up of the Middle East were painful reminders that the world had not yet reached… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
All motivation is defined by intention. If the intention is to hurt, divide, or belittle, it's wrong; if it's an attempt to… — Eric Andre Copy Share Image
“Those mornings were fragile things — like flowers blooming in the middle of a battlefield. She hadn’t realized then that the soil… — Maggie Sn Copy Share Image
“Time for me is now double-edged: every day brings me further from the low of my last relapse but closer to the… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly,… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Worries typically follow such lines, a narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Copy Share Image
People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
For many years, I did pantomime with Marcel Marceau. I was a writer for him and got to know very well how… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image