Tragic Quotes
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It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother`s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
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the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective
Arnold Beisser
Subject: Perspective QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
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My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them.
Dennis Prager
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor
George Shaw
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There`s no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
Rufus Wainwright
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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Adolph S. Ochs
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Boxing has become America`s tragic theater.
Joyce Carol Oates
Subject: Sports QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating e...
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
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I`ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists, neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
Stanley Kubrick
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There`s a feeling of enrichment and challenge when it comes to doing a play, and especially doing, you know, a classical play or a tragic play. In a way, it works a different set of muscles, I guess. But I do love it, and I love great writing, whatever it...
Paul Rudd
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The Cultural Revolution was a very special period of Chinese history, unique in the world. It was part of my youth. It happened between when I was 16 and when I was 26. During those 10 years, I witnessed so many terrible and tragic things. For many years,...
Yimou Zhang
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[on Judy Garland] In some of her films she showed talent which was very comic and touching. Touching because she played with a bright smile and a great spirit, while the situation was rather dramatic, even tragic perhaps. She had in fact a quality which c...
James Mason
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I`m not an action hero anymore, and I think it would be inappropriate for me to compare anything that happens in Hollywood and the entertainment industry to the tragic loss of life on September 11th.
Bruce Willis
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I think doing comedy is more difficult ... than doing noncomedic or tragic or whatever you want to call it. Because it`s difficult to make all kinds of different audiences understand what you`re doing, and moving you to laughter."
Walter Matthau
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I think American news is pretty tragic in general. I can`t tell the difference between "Entertainment Tonight" (1981) and the news. It`s all about ratings. They are trying to sum it all up pretty quickly and try to act as if they understand it.
Ryan Gosling
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It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.
There`s no life without humor. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable."
Rufus Wainwright
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The movie should appeal to everyone. It`s sleazy, elegant, vicious and mean, and it`s about people doing hideous things to each other. If that weren`t enough, it has a tragic end. What more could people ask for? - On Dangerous Liaisons.
John Malkovich
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Most of life is tragic. You`re born, you don`t know why. You`re here, you don`t know why. You go, you die. Your family dies. Your friends die. People suffer. People live in constant terror. The world is full of poverty and corruption and war and Nazis and...
Woody Allen
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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I`ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
Katharine Hepburn
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I don`t need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.
Eddie Vedder
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Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still ...
John Wayne
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Every young actress thinks she`s a tragedian -- the more tragic roles, the more you cry, the more you suffer, the better an actress you are. But, when I got a little older, a little more mature, I wanted to get out of my image of the victimized kid." I be...
Sylvia Sidney
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What`s the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it`s not that way.
Skeet Ulrich
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What`s so tragic about it all is that it was such an unnecessary act of violence, ... I can assure you we will use every resource available to us to make sure that he stands accountable.
Anthony Lagouranis
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What`s most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and shou...
David Archer
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