The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.” — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image
“I think that it is a great tragedy that a child can lose their mother, father, sister or brother, because you and… — Pamela Barrett Copy Share Image
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy. — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to… — John C. Maxwell 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts… — Mrs. Patrick Campbell Copy Share Image
I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Life engulfs happiness and sadness... We determine the part we want to run with and to avoid tragedy needs strategy. Be wise. — Olajide Oluwatobiloba Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, to enable her to bear her life, she needed the accompaniment of an inward music and she could not always… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when its over. Those two elements always go together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it takes a tragedy to make you realize there was so much you should have done differently.” — Chelsea Landon Copy Share Image
Although we are never glad when tragedy visits, we can be aware and seize the opportunity to do good in this world,… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism. — Michael Bay Copy Share Image
No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians. — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is. — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The horror and tragedy that was 9/11 did many things; one of them was to galvanize this country and much of the… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
“He didn't believe in himself. I have to say - with all this tragedy vocabulary going around - that I can see… — Elizabeth LaBan Copy Share Image
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what… — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
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