Harvey Cox Quotes

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

Harvey Cox

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• Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Comic

• I was active on Facebook for a while, responding to comments and thanking fans for their appreciation. But I found that the Facebook feed was numbing my emotions. I'd see an extraordinarily tragic news item, and even before I could react to it, see a hilarious meme right below it. This was confusing me.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Fans
  • Emotions
  • Appreciation

• I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Child
  • Movies
  • Books

• I never read comic books as a kid.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Kid
  • Read
  • Comic

• I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Tragic
  • Outfit
  • Hairdos

• People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• [Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • May
  • Experience

• Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Family
  • Tragic
  • Senseless

• There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Tell
  • Felt
  • Tragic

• There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil.

  

  Gabriel Ba
  • Years
  • Famous
  • Comic

• I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Field
  • Comic
  • Pigeonholed

• I don't think there's hardly a comic out there that does clean material all the way around. There's a couple of guys that are clean, but I'm not one of them.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Couple
  • Comic
  • Clean Material

• I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren't necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Lives
  • Direction
  • Tragic

• Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

  

  Aristotle
  • Poet
  • Possibilities
  • Tragic

• The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Simple
  • Path
  • Tragic

• We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Destination
  • Scientists
  • Tragic

• Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Personality
  • Tragic
  • Divided

• There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • True
  • Enemies
  • False

• My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half. I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn't like. They didn't push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.

  

  Benoit Lecomte
  • Choose
  • Discover
  • Cultures

• I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared from my guitar case.

  

  Dan Piraro
  • Song
  • Government
  • Privacy

• There are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it. I had a checkered early career with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about. Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

  

  Harvey Cox
  • Comic
  • Tragic