Quotes by Tragedy The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action. A. C. Bradley tragedy character lying The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else. Aaron Allston awful differences tragedy Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been. Abba Eban could-have-been differences tragedy Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily. Abebe Bikila victory tragedy men Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives. Aberjhani creative tragedy helping The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated. Abraham Joshua Heschel isolation tragedy religion The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal. Abraham Lincoln alcohol tragedy civilization She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled. Abraham Verghese tragedy children years The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried. Ada Louise Huxtable tragedy lying art Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world. Ada Louise Huxtable triumph tombstone tragedy Magic likes a good tragedy, too. Adam Rex magic likes tragedy It is a tragedy of the Germanic world that Jesus was Judaised, distorted, falsified; and an alien Asiatic spirit was forced upon us. That is a crime we must repair. Adolf Hitler tragedy world jesus The tragedy of life is that people do not change. Agatha Christie tragedy life-is people That is why most great love stories are tragedies. Agatha Christie great-love tragedy stories A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy. Ai Weiwei fairytale nations tragedy The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the Aiden Wilson Tozer space tragedy heart I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One. Aiden Wilson Tozer important tragedy believe This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits. Aiden Wilson Tozer important tragedy order Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity. Aiden Wilson Tozer saint tragedy christianity A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief. Aiden Wilson Tozer grief tragedy men 1234567891011»
