The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of being; we believe all things but doubt the truth.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“God knows whatever comes your way, in any given circumstance.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it. — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
“The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Vaccines [measles] have been proven to be safe, and what happens if you don't take vaccines is children get measles and die.… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse.… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I ask the question all the time of people that are on the anti-gun side. And I say, OK, if you're in… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
Nigeria is so peculiar and dramatic. Even talking about the potentials before we talk about the negativities, Nigeria is a nation for… — Wole Soyinka 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
The most profound question is, "What would I risk dying for?" The natural answer is "for my family." But for most of… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I think that the real tragedy of Greece - aside of the savagery of European bureaucracy, Brussels bureaucracy and northern banks, which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Of all her putative fathers -- Max Schlepzig and masked extras on one side of the moving film, Franz Pökler and certainly… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a… — George W. Bush 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
I play for those young kids with cancer or anybody who went through a tragedy in their life. — James Conner Copy Share Image
Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them. — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven. — David Platt Copy Share Image
“You don't have to be strong to survive a bad situation; you simply need a plan.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image