I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does… — Joseph Fiorenza Copy Share Image
Some people are right on the edge. Don't be the one who pushes them over . — Airyell Speaks Copy Share Image
As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives,… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to… — Steve Gleason Copy Share Image
If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life. — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts… — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's. — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
“For a moment, Blake said nothing. After chewing on her venom for a moment, he shrugged. “I would rather you hate me… — Tanya kaley Copy Share Image
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image