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Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.
Chandra Wilson
Happiness
Life
You
Our
Everything
Find
Silver
Mixed
Tragedies
Lining
Middle
Happens
Lemonade
Certainly
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
Charlton Heston
Society
Wounds
Invariably
True
Comedies
Well
Tragedies
Histories
Certainly
Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea.
Diana Rigg
Women
Will
Predict
Everything
True
Most
Tragedies
Dictate
Greek
Gods
Predetermined
Happen
Them
Fates
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
Edward Bond
Extreme
Said
Tragedies
Very
Greeks
Things
Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.
Edward Dowden
Without
Tragedies
Villains
One of the great tragedies is that there is so much less open land available in Japan today. Many Japanese come to New Zealand because of its beauty.
Edward Zwick
Today
Great
Beauty
Open
New
Come
Because
Tragedies
New Zealand
Available
Japan
Japanese
Land
Much
Less
Many
Zealand
For me, one of the great tragedies is the conclusion studios have drawn about traditional animation. I believe that 2D animation could be just as vital as it ever was. I think the problem has been with the stories.
Edwin Catmull
Great
Me
Problem
Believe
Think
Drawn
Has-Been
Vital
About
Could
Animation
Studios
Conclusion
Traditional
Been
Tragedies
Just
Stories
Ever
Every week, we read about horrific tragedies resulting from children who play with firearms and accidentally shoot themselves or their family members.
Elizabeth Esty
Family
Every
Members
About
Horrific
Resulting
Week
Firearms
Read
Accidentally
Tragedies
Shoot
Family Members
Children
Themselves
Who
Play
The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.
Hrithik Roshan
Life
Hope
You
World
Better
Old
Rise Above
Evolving
Rise
Above
Tragedies
Stop
Helps
Grow
Growing
Keep
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
Idries Shah
Time
People
Past
Believe
Someone
Something
Purposes
Come
Perhaps
Said
Tragedies
Provocation
Times
Person
Modern
Represents
In The Past
Modern Times
Beliefs
Actually
Illustrative
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
James Bovard
Government
Great
About
Know
Most
Learn
Tragedies
Us
It's life, so you're a constant evolution of tragedies and achievements and ups and downs. You can probably get a little bit more immune to things, but whatever is the most amount of pain you feel at any given moment feels like the most amount of pain you'll ever feel.
Jeff Baena
Life
You
Ups And Downs
Whatever
Pain
Bit
Evolution
Constant
Immune
Given
More
Feel
Feels
Like
Most
Tragedies
Get
Any
Any Given Moment
Ups
Achievements
Little
Little Bit
Moment
Downs
Ever
Amount
Things
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
Jessica Lange
Life
Death
Age
More
Becomes
Loss
Tragedies
Familiar
Commonplace
Certain
Certain Age
People really feed on someone else's tragedies or problems.
Joely Fisher
People
Problems
Else
Someone
Feed
Tragedies
Really
I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.
Johan Renck
Beautiful
Dark
Hopeless
Like
Tragedies
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
John Berger
Time
Events
Political
Ongoing
Since
How
Tragedies
Greek
From Time To Time
Artists
Influence
Might
Themselves
Asked
Ever
Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?
John Clayton
Death
God
Time
You
Suffering
People
Problems
Will
College
Young
Every
Every Time
Say
He
Merciful
Almost
How
Am
Tragedies
Campus
Happen
Explain
Loving
Young People
One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting every effort into the foundation of their marriage. My grandmother told me that it's one man and one woman for life and that your marriage is worth fighting for.
Kay Robertson
Life
Great
Me
Man
Woman
Marriage
People
Worth
Fighting
Every
One-Man
See
Putting
Tragedies
Effort
Grandmother
Your
Foundation
I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.
Leos Carax
Else
Say
About
Something
Something Else
Particular
Like
Know
Genre
Sci-Fi
Tragedies
Any
Whether
Much
I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
Marian Seldes
Great
Try
Humor
Think
Enormous
Everything
Find
Because
Tragedies
Them
Even
Plays
I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?
Michael J. Saylor
Half
Think
Everybody
Shakespeare
Naive
Always
Tragedies
Stories
Mean
Succeeds
Right
We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'
Mick Cornett
You
Problem
Word
Mouth
Our
Oklahoma
Ourselves
Out
City
Had
Allowed
Said
Tragedies
Branded
Next
Your
Bombing
Chances
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through.
Octavia E. Butler
Life
You
Will
Way
Minor
See
About
Through
Write
Cheaper
Major
Dealing
Always
Lot
Tragedies
Than
Get
Just
Psychiatrists
Story
Heck
Compensation
Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.
Patti Page
Life
Me
Able
Sing
Years
Tragedies
Handle
Being
Helped
How children attempt to deal with everyday comedies and tragedies, and mortality, is universal and ultimately such a large part of what it means to be human.
Paul G. Tremblay
Everyday
Attempt
Part
Mortality
Comedies
Deal
How
Ultimately
Tragedies
Human
Children
Means
Large
Large Part
Universal
I've always been interested in the Greek tragedies. A few years back, I re-read a translation of the 'The Oresteia,' and that stayed with me, and slowly this idea of using some of those old legends and plays to tell a new story about modern urban life began to form.
Peter Milligan
Life
Me
Old
Few
Translation
Back
Those
Tell
Stayed
Some
Slowly
About
Idea
New
Re-Read
Always
Been
Years
Tragedies
Began
Greek
New Story
Legends
Modern
Form
Story
Interested
Urban
Using
Plays
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