By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any… — George Takei Copy Share Image
This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures… — Bill Simmons Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a moment, in every young girl's life, whether it happens with your family, or a tragedy or death… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people,… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love,… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
Let's recall Bosnia in 1995. As we know well, the European peacekeeping contingent, represented by the Dutch troops, did not want to… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“And does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?No, that’s too grand, too considered a process.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution,… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
To be what is called happy, one should have (1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to… — Cyprian Norwid Copy Share Image
There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our… — Julie Summers Copy Share Image
It [9/11 tragedy] has affected us on so many levels: economically, morally, spiritually, ethically. It's been all over the place. A new… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world,… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity… — Christy A. Campbell Copy Share Image
Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there really are no… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image