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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Never mess with other people's kids. You will never win. It's the child's word against yours and they have parental reinforcements as back-up. You just can't triumph.
There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
Nobody knows the tragedy of a small island divided against itself better than a Cypriot.
I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
I've always been a Jeep guy and I also drive a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle that's a 2007, but it's been all retrofitted to look like an old military cafe racer.
[Robert Smigel] is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches.He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.
Whenever I'd seen Greek tragedy done with masks and declamations, it brought me out in a rash.
As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
Even in the face of tragedy, human beings need to find a way to laugh. It's normal. It's life.
It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.
I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.
I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.
Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.
Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it and my faith in its ultimate triumph never wavers.
Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.
Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.
Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real.
You wouldn't want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You'd get bummed out, and you'd just stay at home and watch the news.
I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
John Mayall doesn't get enough credit. He's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is a tragedy.
Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.
War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.
Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.
Lifting her head, she joined in as the others in the group began to howl in response to Brace's triumph. The sound was . . . It touched the soul, the music haunting, starkly pure and yet so very earthy.
Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.
My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a tornado.
And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.
The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.
A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.
In those early centuries of Christianity,
Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers
of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph.
I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.
There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.
The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.
I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do.
Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating.
If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.
Players that tend to respond to adversity the right way and triumph in the end are players with strong character. If you have enough guys like that in the clubhouse, you have an edge on the other team.
Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.
If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.
In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.
What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.
Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.
