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Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.
Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.
The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally.
Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.
I miss Lisa 'Left Eye' every day. Watched her VH1 special many times. A tragedy. But I didn't see the movie based on her.
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.
Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.
A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
It is the perpetual tragedy of all families: each of us believe our congenital pathologies and singular pains end with us.
Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.
There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
This is really a twin tragedy both for the people who were misled over there and for those of us who were misled over here.
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.
There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy.
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a tornado.
And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.
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.
We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.
I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
Occupation is the Palestinian people's tragedy, but also Israel's present. We must liberate both people from the occupation.
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy.
I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.
The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.
I put my heart into 'Vaaranam Ayiram.' I lost my father when I began the film, and the tragedy turned my entire script around.
Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.
I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.
When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.