If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?
The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.
In the scale of American blunders - from the Dred Scott decision to the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s to the tragedy of Vietnam - is the Trump presidency really unique?
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
