Wes Moore Quotes

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

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• Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Triumph

• History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • First
  • Tragedy

• 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
  • People
  • Together
  • Suffering

• 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
  • Tragedy
  • Greek
  • Ending

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

  

  Farooq Abdullah
  • People
  • Trust
  • Tragedy

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

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy

• 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

• I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Tragedy
  • Insecurity
  • Hilarious

• 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

• For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Stories

• Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Stories
  • Successful
  • Effect

• I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Door
  • Stories
  • Mysterious

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

  

  Alan Paton
  • Broken
  • Tragedy
  • Mended

• It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Great
  • Stories
  • Thanks

• When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

  

  Ang Lee
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Stories

• I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Want

• I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology of horror films. I narrated it with a man named Joe Maddrey, who's a writer. He came to my house and said, "Lance would you consider doing this?," and I like Joe so much that I completely relaxed.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Done
  • House
  • Red

• 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

• Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • People
  • Attention
  • Tragedy

• I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, 'Watchmen' should be at least 15 minutes longer than 'Batman.' I mean, that's, like, any geek will tell you that.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • You
  • Look
  • I Can

• Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

  

  Jolene Blalock
  • Littles
  • Surfing
  • Bottom

• The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

  

  Wes Moore
  • Stories
  • Tragedy
  • Mines