#rage

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things. ↗

— Ted Olson

#am #bit #bush #calls #cheney

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#answered #bitter #called #cold #courageously

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#believe #courage #dangers #darkest #enforce

Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#kill #killed #outraged

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim. ↗

— Amos Oz

#been #between #claim #clash #conflict

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#awe #deprived #discourage #ensue #horrid

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#efforts #encourage #endeavor #others #own

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#coverage #difference #martyrdom #only #press

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#happened #life #me #my life #ruined