Making Sense Of Tragedy Quotes

#1. What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?

William Wordsworth

#2. If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

Martha Reeves

#3. The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.

Leo Szilard

#4. The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

Rick Riordan

#5. while there's a lot that I don't know about the world, I do know that kids have a funny way of helping you keep things in perspective.

Nicholas Sparks

#6. Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. (a moon swims out of a cloud
a clock strikes midnight
a finger pulls a trigger
a bird flies into a mirror)

E. E. Cummings

#8. You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that.

Chase Utley