What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be the prerogative of the minority.
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.
I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
The biggest tragedy we had early on was when Bon Scott died.
The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.
Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.
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.
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.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.