The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's… — Rebecca Goldstein 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
Try telling the poor starving children in third world countries, the people in war torn countries, the women and young girls who… — Danny Santagato Copy Share Image
Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“I must acknowledge that though his adoption embodies graciousness, it is also a reminder this world is not as it should be.… — Natalie Brenner Copy Share Image
A loss leads to victory, being fired leads to a dream job..I find comfort in believing that good things can grow out… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Charley threw Cindy on the bed and pulled a switchblade knife. He pressed the release button and a five-inch blade flipped open.… — Shafter Bailey Copy Share Image
“Life requires us to do things anyway, despite what sort of fear or monster or tragedy or suffering lurks behind that anyway. ” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer… — Walter Prescott Webb Copy Share Image
When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
They want younger girls, not old ones like me, as heroines. This is the tragedy of Bollywood. It is male dominated. — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
Everybody tries to take a tragedy and turn it to their own political purposes, and it's both sides. — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“CHORUS: You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The reality is, there is heartbreaking tragedy that has struck American families because people who came into this country illegally are now… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
