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The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
by Brenda Ueland (Writer, American , born in 1891) keywords: act, becomes, bold, continuously, dry, empty, forthright, industrious, much, thinking, tragedy , without The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
by Alfred de Vigny (Poet, French , born in 1797) keywords: acts, coherent, doubtless, enacted, end, eye, god, human, last, man, meaning, only, perhaps, race, reveal, stage, tragedy, unity, until, vast, visible, which, will , world Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
by Horace Walpole (Author, English , born in 1717) keywords: beauties, character, comedy, diversified, even, great, half, imitation, just, nature, nor, operations, passions, plot, poetry, rules, situations, their , tragedy The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.
by John Walsh (Entertainer, American , born in 1945) keywords: abduction, appreciate, best, child, copes, differently, each, every, faced, fully, goes, how, knows, nightmare, parent, responds, she, similar, such, through, time, tragedy, understand, unless , way One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
by Lalla Ward (Actor, English , born in 1951) keywords: advantages, appearing, been, begin, bore, burden, everybody, feel, felt, great, guilt, had, play, properly, she, such, tragedy, understand , used The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
by Steven Weinberg (Scientist, American , born in 1933) keywords: above, effort, farce, few, gives, grace, human, level, life, lifts, little, some, things, tragedy, understand, universe , very For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.
by Simon Wiesenthal (Activist, Austrian , born in 1908) keywords: also, benefit, jews, law, learn, must, next, other, our, tragedy, victims, written , your I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: bore, delightful, merely, out, simply, society, suppose, tragedy , wonderfully Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
by William Butler Yeats (Poet, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: abiding, being, had, him, irish, joy, periods, sense, sustained, temporary, through, tragedy , which It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.
by Edward Zwick (Director, American , born in 1952) keywords: almost, benefit, come, country, diamonds, discovered, every, found, gold, making, matters, natural, oil, rarely, resource, resources, resulting, results, riches, rubber, seems, these, time, tragedy, valuable, which , worse
