The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us.… — Douglas Davis Copy Share Image
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible… — Gever Tulley 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
My biggest problem with President Bush is when we were in kindergarten together, he broke my favorite red crayon! Since that moment,… — Carolyn Parrish Copy Share Image
It would be easy for this conflict to slip off the political agenda given how long it has been going on but… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic… — Beverly Johnson Copy Share Image
The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“Signý knew she would die a thousand deaths upon seeing another woman with him, bearing his children, raising them with him. All… — Farrah Naseem Copy Share Image
He's the best of us. The best of our best, the best that each of us will ever build or ever love.… — John Steakley Copy Share Image
Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny,… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The thing I try to get across to the writers - and I do a lot of writing, too - is that… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would be… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“People like to imagine that they get a girl who's been depressed, or confused, or desperate, and it's so romantic and exciting,… — Alison Umminger Copy Share Image
Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise." And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major… — Samuel Roth 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
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
When America does not lead, the world is a dangerous and a tragic place. This is a bad deal. [Barack] Obama broke… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image