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The synaptic shores of our minds often vibrate with tunes we imprisoned in the silence of yesterday,urgetting stories waiting for reiteration.
Author:
Eloise Hart
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In the scars of the past, we uncover the seeds of empathy that blossom into unyielding compassion for those in distress.
Author:
Elara Thornfield
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Tragedy may bring tears, but through our resilience we can turn them into strength.
Author:
Michelle Johnson
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The greatest tragedies often hold the key to our deepest resilience.
Author:
Amanda Phillips
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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.
Author:
Olivia Wilde
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For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.
Author:
Simon Wiesenthal
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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.
Author:
Lalla Ward
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The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.
Author:
John Walsh
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Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
Author:
Stephen Vizinczey
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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
Author:
Alfred Vigny
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The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
Author:
Brenda Ueland
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Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.
Author:
Hunter Tylo
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The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Author:
Wislawa Szymborska
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Author:
Tom Stoppard
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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
Author:
Anne Stevenson
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The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Author:
Joseph Stalin
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One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
Author:
Joseph Stalin
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The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.
Author:
Mark Spitz
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In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Author:
Adam Smith
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Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
Author:
Robert Shea
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Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
Author:
Peter Shaffer
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
Author:
Jack Schwartz
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I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.
Author:
Maximilian Schell
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The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
Author:
Jonas Salk
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Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
Author:
Margaret Sackville
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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.
Author:
Mark Rylance
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I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.
Author:
Jason Ritter
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I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.
Author:
Godfrey Reggio
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A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Author:
Jean Racine
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It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
Author:
Sun Ra
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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
Author:
Mario Puzo
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Author:
Dawn Powell
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.
Author:
John Phillips
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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.
Author:
Lester Pearson
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Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Author:
Joe Paterno
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After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.
Author:
George Pataki
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Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
Author:
Amos Oz
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And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.
Author:
Amos Oz
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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.
Author:
Ted Olson
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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
Author:
John Mortimer
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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Author:
Arthur Morgan
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Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.
Author:
Kylie Minogue
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The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
Author:
Henry Miller
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.
Author:
Jim McKay
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I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while.
Author:
Rose McGowan
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Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
Author:
John Masefield
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Author:
Karl Marx
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Author:
Karl Marx
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
Author:
James Madison
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It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.
Author:
Daniel Libeskind
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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
Author:
Vivien Leigh
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
Author:
David Lawrence
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Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
Author:
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.
Author:
Peter Krause
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The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
Author:
Allen Klein
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
Author:
Ben Kingsley
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The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our next record tragedy, it traditionally will probably change the distribution again and it will get held up again.
Author:
Kerry King
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Author:
Robert Kennedy
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
Author:
Patrick Kennedy
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
Author:
Vernon Jordan
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
Author:
Jacky Ickx
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Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Author:
Hypatia
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.
Author:
King Hussein I
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The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
Author:
Douglas Hurd
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I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.
Author:
Isabelle Huppert
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Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.
Author:
Jane Hull
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
Author:
William Howells
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No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
Author:
Alan Hovhaness
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You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.
Author:
Shannon Hoon
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The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.
Author:
Mike Honda
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I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.
Author:
John Hickenlooper
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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
Author:
Lillian Hellman
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The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
Author:
Shirley Hazzard
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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Author:
Helen Hayes
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What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.
Author:
Dennis Hastert
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Author:
Edith Hamilton
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Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Author:
Robert Half
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There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
Author:
Walter Hagen
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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
Author:
John Guare
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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
Author:
Germaine Greer
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It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.
Author:
Jim Gerlach
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If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
Author:
Richard Gallienne
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
Author:
Maggie Gallagher
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In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
Author:
Christopher Fry
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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Author:
Harry Fosdick
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An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.
Author:
Gerald Ford
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
Author:
F. Fitzgerald
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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
Author:
William Feather
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Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.
Author:
Brett Favre
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Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
Author:
William Faulkner
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I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
Author:
Sam Ervin
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Author:
Havelock Ellis
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Author:
Loren Eiseley
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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.
Author:
Abba Eban
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It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
Author:
John Dyer
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In every gathered circle, it is the missing voice that evokes curiosity--a whisper left to untangle only in the weary shadows of what might have been.
Author:
Andrew Sterling
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Author:
Clarence Darrow
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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.
Author:
Stafford Cripps
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In the quiet fading of time, forgotten echoes mold the essence of reminiscence -- each pattern layered with emotions unvoiced; lessons drift to the back architecture of our souls.
Author:
Kieran Aldring
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We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.
Author:
Alex Cox
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The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
Author:
Pierre Corneille
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I think art can reflect tragedy.
Author:
John Corigliano
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Author:
Jean Cocteau
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Author:
Irvin Cobb
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This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
Author:
Albert Claude
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Author:
Arthur Clarke
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We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
Author:
Helen Clark
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The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.
Author:
Chris Chocola
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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.
Author:
Ahmed Chalabi
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It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.
Author:
Joyce Cary
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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
Author:
Angela Carter
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People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
Author:
James Cabell
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I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
Author:
George Bush
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Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
Author:
George Bush
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The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
Author:
George Bush
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When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
Author:
Carter Burwell
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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Author:
Carol Burnett
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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Author:
Lenny Bruce
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Author:
Rita Brown
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I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
Author:
Jeff Bridges
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But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
Author:
Norman Borlaug
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I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.
Author:
Emma Bonino
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To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
Author:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Author:
Erma Bombeck
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Author:
Tony Blair
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When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
Author:
Monica Bellucci
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Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
Author:
Michael Bay
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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Author:
Jacques Barzun
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It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.
Author:
Michael Barnes
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There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
Author:
George Baker
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What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
Author:
George Baker
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Author:
Richard Bach
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Author:
Paddy Ashdown
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Author:
Aristotle
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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Author:
Jean Anouilh
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The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
Author:
Maxwell Anderson
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
Author:
Aaron Allston
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Author:
Edward Abbey
