It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally happy. Everyone has experiences that makes them cynical, jaded or unhappy - you just have to fight those things… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a… — Christine Ebersole Copy Share Image
Just trying to tell the truth about, you know, the struggle of - being alive is funny, it's just inherently tragic and… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be… — Paul Lazarsfeld Copy Share Image
How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The White House begun airing their TV commercials to re-elect the president, and the John Kerry campaign is condemning his use of… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and,… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
