Tragedy Quotes

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Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we… — Stephen Jay Gould
The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. — Robert Quillen
Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them. — Jacqueline Susann
The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to… — Kent Nerburn
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… — Ahmed Chalabi
Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air… — Christine Todd Whitman
After the tragedy of 9/11 we were on our way to becoming a fledgling Matriotic society until our leaders jumped on the bandwagon of inappropriate… — Cindy Sheehan
Whoâ€™s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just donâ€™t know. The gamble of triumph… — Ada Louise Huxtable
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must… — Maxwell Maltz
Short on glamour and long on tragedy. — Unknown Author
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part… — Henry David Thoreau
Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said,… — Edgar Allan Poe
The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people. — Herb Kelleher
We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in Proverbs, "Wisdom is… — Henry D. Taylor
The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference… — Neal A. Maxwell
When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy. — Albert Camus
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. — Robert Breault
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government. — James Bovard
The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole. — Moshe Katsav

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