Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“To be the child of a conficted or reputed witch was inherently dangerous; in one pathetic case in Lorraine a young couple… — Robin Briggs Copy Share Image
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy. — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does:otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Write it on your forehead, write it on your heart, on your third chakra, on your second chakra and your first chakra.… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent… — Victor Del Arbol Copy Share Image
In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray. — Paul Dano 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
“The greatest tragedy is not that Papuans disappear. It is that Papua disappears while Papuans remain.” — Yamin Kogoya Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl… — Peter Calthorpe Copy Share Image
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
“Tell her I'm sorry I sold the diamond, eh?" Sammy said. "I broke my promise. When she disappeared in Alaska... ah, so… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Late in November, Lenny took off for his eagerly anticipated job in Chicago. It had been nearly a year since he played… — Albert Goldman Copy Share Image
