They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. " "Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. " "We need more special effects and dance numbers.
One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs by-everyone else: a "tragedy of the commons" is created.
I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.
We must believe, but we can't believe. Perhaps this is the tragedy that some of us see in Obama: a change we can believe in and the crushing realisation that nothing will change.
As far as the environment is concerned, I am becoming pessimistic because I do not see anybody stepping up and taking the long view approach. It seems like we're stuck in a tragedy of the commons where everyone is trying to contribute as little as possible to get out of this situation.
A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.
I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to make it even worse. So, it's basically highway robbery, and I think it's a tragedy.
Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" - and this present President. . . It's a tragedy, you know, what's happened there post-Mandela, because he was an iconic figure.
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.
When I step back from any moment of crisis that I've ever had, I'm always struck by how humor and tragedy can kind of live in the same moment, holding hands together. How life can go from the ridiculous to the sublime to the tragic all in one breath.
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.