Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

William Manchester

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

William McDonough

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

Virginia Woolf

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Saul Alinsky

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Robin Roberts

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

Wislawa Szymborska

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Wes Moore

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Virginia Woolf

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Vincente Minnelli

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

Vincente Minnelli

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

Kelly Rutherford

There are so many fun charity festivals in the Hamptons. We enjoy so many fun events for kids such as Kidsfest. We also go to Super Saturday. We like to chill out and go out by the pool. We do things that are fun for kids and good for charity.

Troye Sivan

I want to be able to like just chill and make whatever I want to make.

Robert Johnson

The blues is a low down achin' chill,

Mark Hadlow

Relaxing is important; I would like to do more! Golf is a pretty good attempt, but good television, I find, is a great way to chill out and let it do the thinking for you. As long as the programme has got some substance and is well made, happy as a par round of 72!

Boyden Gray

If you want to chill robust debate over what government should do, the way to chill it is to disclose it.

Hannah Teter

I guess I was kind of distracted at the beginning. But then I chilled out and made it.

Douglas Booth

I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

Matthew Lewis

I live in Leeds, which is about 200 miles north of London, and I get to go and do all the 'Harry Potter' stuff and make great films and be part of this wonderful thing all around the world, and then I get to go home and chill out with my friends in Leeds and go watch the football and go to the pub.

Susie Gardner

I know I get chill bumps, and I'm not about to play.