Great Tragedy Quotes - Page 2

• I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

  Marian Seldes

  Thinking, Play, Tragedy

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• Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

  Jack Abramoff

  Thinking, Tragedy, Illegal

  "Jack Abramoff Calls D.C. Politics Dirty As Ever". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 18, 2011.

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• It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

  Sam Shepard

  Fall, America, Tragedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

  Antonio Guterres

  Suffering, Tragedy, Humanitarian

  "Deborah Amos on Syria’s Refugee Crisis". "Moyers & Company" with Phil Donahue, billmoyers.com. September 6, 2013.

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• Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Loss, Thinking, People

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• To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.

  Alec Baldwin

  Real, War, Party

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no political will for peace in the Israeli government. They're not serious about political peace because they're still building settlements and demolishing Palestinian homes. That is a great tragedy.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Home, Government, Political Will

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

  Vladimir Putin

  Tragedy, Unions, Century

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

  Andrew Sullivan

  America, Tragedy, Resistance

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• What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

  George R. R. Martin

  Brother, Memories, Son

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.553, Bantam

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• One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Simple, People, Tragedy

  "God, science, and delusion". "Free Inquiry" Interview with Matt Cherry, March 22, 1999.

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• Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

  Johnny Ball

  Birthday, Effort, Tragedy

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• It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer. To their peril, they ignore that spiritual lifeline just at the time when their attention to it most needs to be intensified. By so doing they cut themselves of from revelation and inspiration and deprive themselves of hearing the Lord's voice. They give up the prospect of gaining the very hope and comfort for which their hearts yearn.

  David S. Baxter

  Spiritual, Prayer, Giving Up

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• Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Tragedy, Socialism, Century

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• Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the true worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul... You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.

  Adrian Tan

  Love Is, Loving Someone, Inspire

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• My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.

  Jon Stewart

  Baseball, Grandmother, Boys

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• The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

  Leon Bloy

  Real, Sadness, Tragedy

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• This is... one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they’ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we’re in danger... it’s almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us.

  Newt Gingrich

  Successful, Guy, Tragedy

  "Holy Terror! Newt Gingrich Joked About ‘Allow(ing) An Attack To Get Through’" by Tommy Christopher, www.mediaite.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.

  Lucy Grealy

  Pain, Cancer, Years

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• If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Games, Tragedy

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• We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.

  Lester R. Brown

  Oil, Car, Effort

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• It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mother, Daughter, Children

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the seas bear only commerce - men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Beach, Lying, War

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Art, Bad Ass

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

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• I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to do with health or medicine, but instead are to do with satisfying the desires that are created by the consumer society.

  Michael Sandel

  Thinking, Medicine, Tragedy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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