Quotes with tragedy-in-the-making

Quotes 301 till 320 of 666.

  • Walter Lippmann Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Horace Walpole Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Charlie Chaplin Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Gilda Radner Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Confucius Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • John Lennon Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Balthazar Getty Life started getting good when I started making money.
    Balthazar Getty
    American actor and musician (1975 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Buddy Wakefield Listen, if you're from Arizona I'm not making fun of your home. I'm making fun of you for gathering there and building a community in an oven. Smooth move.
    Poetry Arizona Summers
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Joe Paterno Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
    Joe Paterno
    American Football coach
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  • Barbara Deming Make it impossible for [the authority] to operate within the system as usual... making it impossible for him simply to strike back without thought and with all his strength.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Ben Harper Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg--that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
    Roots Radical, Guitar Player (December 1, 1999)
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Kin Hubbard Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Jerry Gillies Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Andy Rooney Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Bea Arthur Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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