When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped. – Samuel Johnson Category: Tragedy
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot Category: Tragedy
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. – William Dean Howells Category: Tragedy
Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more. – Rip Torn Category: Politics
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. – Isaac Asimov Category: Science
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Wales! – Robert Bolt Category: Soul
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. – Maurice Maeterlinck Category: Past
