I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
“Some people's glasses are half full. I'm the one drinking them. Some people have forgotten that Pluto is still a planet. I… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams ‘If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!’ And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I think the tragedy of Barack Obama's presidency is that although a lot of people around the world really admire Barack Obama… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We're one American family, brought together in times of tragedy by the unbreakable bonds of love and loyalty that we have for… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Tragedy made you petty and spiteful. It didn’t give you any great knowledge or insight. She didn’t understand a damned thing about… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
My positions on gun safety have remained consistent over the years, and have been on my website for years. Whether I'm in… — Brad Sherman 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
When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable,… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Ugliness and tragedy are stories that write themselves, happiness and beauty on the other hand may need a little inspiration and encouragement… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
All Americans should be deeply troubled by the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Falcon… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think it's sort of the hypothetical point where communism and fascism meet. They love tragedy, and they love surface beauty. You… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I never get tired of looking at her [Catherine Keener] and it always surprises me, despite how many hours of film I've… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn't there? Isn't Jesus Christ's Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
![“I never get tired of looking at her [Catherine Keener] and it always surprises me, despite how many hours of film I've shot on that face. She's fantastic. She does comedy and tragedy so equally well. She wears her feeling so on the surface for both. I try to stop myself from casting her but I just…” quote by Nicole Holofcener](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36e/nicole-holofcener-9867_casting_i-never-get-tired-of-looking-at-her-cath_954717.jpg)
