"The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength."
― Robert Shea
Topic(s):
Strength
More From Robert Shea
- "Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member’s freedom of thought and action."
- "It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department."
- "Ultimately we may still ask, why can’t humans design a perfect society?"
More In Strength
- "I’m actually a pretty decent human being, and when I’m home I’m straight as an arrow."― Kid Rock
- "I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."― Joshua Lederberg
- "He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."― Henry Ward Beecher