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'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

• 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
  • Scientists
  • Destination
  • Tragic

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

  

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

• People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • People
  • Power
  • Tragic

• The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • People
  • Book
  • Hero

• If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Stage

• I don't know if I could (do a TV show). I would if it had nothing to do with the comic. It would be really weird and maybe not feature any of The Umbrella Academy characters.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Show
  • Characters
  • To Do

• It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

  

  Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Remember
  • Golf
  • Tragic

• I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.'

  

  Boman Irani
  • Actor
  • Roles
  • Comic

• Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Purpose
  • Powerful

• Some people may think that it is a dangerous attitude to take toward the Bible, to pick and choose what you want to accept and throw everything else out. My view is that everyone already picks and chooses what they want to accept in the Bible...I have a young friend who whose evangelical parents were upset because she wanted to get a tattoo, since the Bible, after all, condemns tattoos. In the same book, Leviticus, the Bible also condemns wearing clothing made of two different kinds of fabric and eating pork...Why insist on the biblical teaching about tattoos but not about dress shirts, pork chops, and stoning?

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Parents
  • Friend
  • Bible

• 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