Quotes of: Great-tragedy Keyword

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

Jack Abramoff

I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

Cameron Crowe

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

David Mamet

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Jacques Barzun

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Loren Eiseley

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.

Dave Grohl

Love can be a very frightening thing.” “That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

Agatha Christie

Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.

Everwild

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

Marian Seldes

It is always a great honour to mention a truth which has not become widespread yet. One of these truths is that man has no soul; he has only ‘body’ and ‘mind’. Man’s unshakable belief on the soul will not change this scientific truth! No be...

Mehmet Murat ildan

God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom, but only if you plant the seeds.

Steve Maraboli

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virt...

Kafka on the Shore

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

atheist

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tra...

Michael Shermer

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

Dennis Hastert

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

Jim Gerlach

'Big Time Rush' was a great show, and I had some great experiences. It allowed me to become more of a comedic actress, which is also a great skill to have. But there wasn't a whole lot of tragedy in there. Not quite as dark as 'Red Band Society.' So ...

Ciara Bravo