Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call… — Adrian Tan Copy Share Image
“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best; but, when a man has seen the light, this is next best by… — Sophocles 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
Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams ‘If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!’ And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally. — Bob Parr Copy Share Image
People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible. — Jim McKay Copy Share Image
This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our… — Kerry King Copy Share Image
You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as… — Ernie Hudson Copy Share Image
What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title?… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
“The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing.… — Hwang Sŏk-yŏng Copy Share Image
I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Hopefully we can come together without tragedy making us do this. Because ultimately underneath it all, at the risk of sounding cliché,… — Marc Andreyko Copy Share Image
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
People have something on their mind. It almost feels [on marches against now-President Donald Trump] like after-tragedy. People seem sort of preoccupied. — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is… — Richard Jordan Copy Share Image
