William Muir Quotes

The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.

William Muir

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• I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

  

  Barry Sheene
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• I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Me
  • Model
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• History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • First
  • Tragedy

• Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
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• I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

  

  Farooq Abdullah
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  • Trust
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• There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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  • Comedy
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• What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Child
  • Down
  • Tragedy

• One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Play
  • Tragedy
  • Used

• People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'

  

  Ian Doescher
  • People
  • History
  • Comedy

• I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy

• I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Image
  • Decided
  • Publicity

• This is an American tragedy of enormous proportions and it's going to take a long time to bring it back to where it was let alone better.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Time
  • Long
  • American

• The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • Law
  • Causes
  • Decided

• When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Power
  • Society

• The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Broken
  • Tragedy
  • Mended

• Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Why
  • Grief
  • Doe

• I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Mirror

• I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Life
  • Decided
  • Skinny

• God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.

  

  Nicholas John Frost
  • Creation
  • Mankind
  • Tragedy

• A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • College
  • Mean
  • Moving

• Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.

  

  Socrates
  • Friends
  • Respect
  • Virtue

• When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • She
  • Help
  • Want

• The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.

  

  William Muir
  • Tragedy
  • Decided
  • Kingdoms