#ma

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). ↗

— Dawn Powell

#basis #comedy #death #disease #greed

No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars. ↗

— Llewelyn Powys

#eyes #human #look #more #night

To go to the Oscars for Moneyball - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal. ↗

— Chris Pratt

#amazing #back #being #go #goal

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#anything #except #exotic #expertise #foods

We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes. ↗

— Joseph Jackson

#mistakes

Man lives for science as well as bread. ↗

— William James

#lives #man #man lives #science #well

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#greatest #i #mankind #scourge #view

From one small lie her dream had transformed into a hideous nightmare ↗