It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it. – Mike Pence
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. – Lenny Bruce
Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were? – Juhi Chawla
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you’ve survived a deep tragedy. – Kelsey Grammer
It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one. – Jim Gerlach
Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land. – Jack Schwartz
Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies. – Marianne Williamson
I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It’s not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented. – Julie Brown
Effort without talent is a depressing situation… but talent without effort is a tragedy. – Mike Ditka
In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. – Jacky Ickx
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent. – Larry MacPhail
Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant. – Jesse Kellerman
Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11. – Michael Bloomberg
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question. – Richard Flanagan
No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy. – Orison Swett Marden
I’ve had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness. – Pierre Salinger
For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it’s too disruptive. – Rebel Wilson
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. – Robert Shea
‘Greek Street’ is a very strange beast. I think of it as ‘The Long Good Friday’ meets ‘Agamemnon.’ A way of using those fantastically rich stories from Greek tragedy to take a look at our world and to explore some of the things I think about this world. – Peter Milligan
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. – Roger Ebert
I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn’t it? – Paula Hawkins
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. – Patrick J. Kennedy
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. – Richard Flanagan
In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this. – Per Petterson
I was with somebody else at the time, who I left – one, because I didn’t really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I’d had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while. – Rose McGowan
We demand that people don’t deny the Holocaust, and we can’t ignore the tragedy of another nation. – Reuven Rivlin