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Tragedy Quotes
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato Quotes
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. - John Mortimer Quotes
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. - Gerald R Ford Quotes
One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelias tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt. - Lalla Ward Quotes
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. - Irvin S Cobb Quotes
I dont want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand were one family. - Madeleine Albright Quotes
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers. - Stafford Cripps Quotes
Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible. - Jim Mckay Quotes
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole Quotes
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 Quotes
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction. - Lester B Pearson Quotes
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. - Charlie Chaplin Quotes
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. - Edith Hamilton Quotes
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. - Heywood Broun Quotes
But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays. - Mark Rylance Quotes
The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve. - Ahmed Chalabi Quotes
Yes but the tragedy is Iraq is a disastrous mess; 10,000 Iraqis have died, American troops are dying, some of our troops have died. - Clare Short Quotes
I think theres a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think thats a beautiful line. - Maximilian Schell Quotes
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur. - Gavin Newsom Quotes
People think its a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimers. But in my mothers case, its different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, shes happy. - Amy Tan Quotes
I think its the tragedy of our time that were not aware of the affect of the manner in which weve adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are. - Godfrey Reggio Quotes
So often, personal tragedy cripples people to the point where they become emotional basket cases. They just cant go on anymore. - Donald Johanson Quotes
Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but Ive only had tragic haircuts and outfits. - Kylie Minogue Quotes
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. - Abba Eban Quotes
The tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. - Benjamin E Mays Quotes
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. - William Barclay Quotes
Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel. - Horace Walpole Quotes
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - Thomas Huxley Quotes
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isnt original sin. Hes born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and its a tragedy. A lot of people dont have the courage to do it. - Helen Hayes Quotes
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