As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“For a moment she believed he had left, but as she shifted away from the wall she sensed him there beside the… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I still think that everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a singular tragic encounter after which everything that really matters will… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
“The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The different American experience of the 20th Century is crucial because the lesson of the century for Europe, which essentially is that… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break… — David Millar Copy Share Image
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you,… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws. — Joe Madureira Copy Share Image
Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The issue of animal use and abuse can seem insurmountable, it is tragic and it is complex. We love our companion animals… — Liz Marshall Copy Share Image
