Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
“I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melancholy attitude toward melancholy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a… — James Lovegrove Copy Share Image
Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly,… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Copy Share Image
If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Worries typically follow such lines, a narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
For many years, I did pantomime with Marcel Marceau. I was a writer for him and got to know very well how… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Whatever you do to recover from a loss, people will be critical because they believe that the only way to recover is… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
“The deep vexation of is inward soul Hath served a dumb arrest upon his tongue; Who, mad that sorrow should his use… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
There are huge pluses in Scottish archaeology that you simply don't get elsewhere. Partly that's to do with the tragedy of the… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image