#tragedy

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

— Loren Eiseley

#frequently #frightens #great #man #ordinary

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christ #cross #endure #exclusive #fruit

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#between #classical #defeated #evil #good

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability. ↗

— William Feather

#ambition #few #many #tragedy

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy. ↗

— Helen Clark

#american people #condolences #just #our #people

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. ↗

— Tom Cochrane

#comes #compromise #dignity #failure #having

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#became #beginning #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy. ↗

— Brett Favre

#famous #first #first of all #happened #i

Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#doing #our #sept #since #too

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. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#effort #farce #few #few things #gives