Books Quote by Candice Millard

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

— Samuel Johnson

“The death of Robert G. Ingersoll , on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely -- noted events of that year in…

— Herman E. Kittredge

“I ended that letter, 'There is nothing in this life that is a complete tragedy - nothing - try to remember that.' Looking back,…

— Ann Rule

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

— Samuel Johnson

“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify…

— Thomas Jefferson

“It put him in mind of the grand death of Julius Caesar, stabbed by a throng of Roman senators and dying very decoratively, scarlet…

— Anne Fortier

“And to think I survived this deadly workload, only to be murdered by the sight of my parents' bare asses, a tragedy that gives…

— Megan McCafferty

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the…

— Megan Karasch

“Five years later, 750,000 Americans were dead. But the fact that such carnage had been wreaked for a cause that Ulysses S. Grant called…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring…

— A. C. Bradley

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember…

— Mark Twain

“there are no winners in a tragedy, only people struggling to survive the aftermath.”

— Ruth Cardello