In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of… — Emil Fackenheim Copy Share Image
I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
With the gift of the Holy Ghost comes the ability to develop a powerfully sensitive capacity to make the right choices. Cultivate… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
“We are rational creatures, Professor Jove explained; hope is irrational. We thus set ourselves up for one dispiriting fall after the next.… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the… — Howard Cosell Copy Share Image
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss… — Kevin Nash Copy Share Image
Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure… — Geoffrey Dutton Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“This tragedy demonstrates better than any classroom lesson that leaders can never let their emotions get the better of them. Cool heads… — Joelle Charbonneau Copy Share Image
“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States… In these terrible circumstances, all… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
The impact of the human tragedies I've reported on is that, more often than not, I'll be angry. I want to know… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
New York' is based on part of the political canvas of 9/11, but it speaks of prejudices after the great human tragedy.… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“How could it be? For weeks he'd run himself ragged, his only goal to keep her safe until the moment when he… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone;… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever… — Malik Zulu Shabazz Copy Share Image
The main thing we should be focused on is the strategy to destroy ISIS. And I laid out a plan that the… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of how unexpected and yet oddly preordained life can be. Events are upon you in an instant, unforseen and without… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“TEIRESIAS: You have your eyes but see not where you are in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I'm not making fun of it because I want to make fun of it. I'm making fun of it so I feel… — Pete Davidson Copy Share Image
Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“My tragedy is no peculiar. It is as ordinary as a street dog. I struggle and cope with my wants, my needs,my… — Vandana Yadav Copy Share Image
