Quotes of: Great-tragedy Keyword

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

Dee Dee Myers

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

Bobby Ghosh

Another way to describe the dilemma for religious faith is that pluralism creates social conditions in which God is no longer an inevitability. While it is possible to believe in God, one has to work much harder at it because the framework of belief ...

To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

At any given point you can release your greatest self. Don’t let anyone hold you back. Don’t let anyone dilute you. Don’t be peer pressured into being less than you are. People willing to dilute themselves for the sake of others is one of the g...

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

In 1959, Vice-President Nixon, speaking to members of California’s Commonwealth Club, was asked if he’d like to see the parties undergo an ideological realignment—the sort that has since taken place—and he replied, “I think it would be a gr...

Love

Only great men may have great faults.

French

Nothing is illegal so long as you correct it before the SEC catches it.

Closure of the Helpdesk — A Geek Tragedy

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

Denial

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

Einstein's Dreams

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don’t think Fortune has anything to do with it?

The Ferryman

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

The Greek Way

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

It is sad but so many tragedies can be avoided, if we extend a little bit of love to one another.

Beautiful Quotes

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road.

All These Things I've Done

One of life's sorest tragedies is that the people who brim with confidence are always the wrong people.

I Can Make You Hate

Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.

Infinity

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Killosophy

It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.

Monkey Hunting

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

The Leftovers