People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite… — Amir Taheri Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy of the Germanic world that Jesus was Judaised, distorted, falsified; and an alien Asiatic spirit was forced upon… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow. — Anne Heche Copy Share Image
It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am Gods slave, not that of… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution,… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“And does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?No, that’s too grand, too considered a process.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Let's recall Bosnia in 1995. As we know well, the European peacekeeping contingent, represented by the Dutch troops, did not want to… — Vladimir Putin 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
Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there… — Bill Murray 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
“How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.” — Sunday Adelaja 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
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
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
“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
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
There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of Hetty is a ‘collide’26 between the free will and male dominant society or nobility27 or religion. If her conduct… — Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar Copy Share Image
Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world,… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity… — Christy A. Campbell Copy Share Image
Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there really are no… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
It [9/11 tragedy] has affected us on so many levels: economically, morally, spiritually, ethically. It's been all over the place. A new… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our… — Julie Summers Copy Share Image
There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
To be what is called happy, one should have (1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to… — Cyprian Norwid Copy Share Image
A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
If Trump were to go ahead with a renewed policy of hostility toward Iran, it would immediately raise tensions, and could quickly… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image