Tragedy Quotes - Page 31

• Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?

  Tony Abbott

  Pregnancy, Years, Community

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• I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.

  Tony Abbott

  Years, Judging, Abortion

  "Abortion 'a badge of liberation', says Abbott", www.theage.com.au. February 16, 2006.

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• Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.

  Jeff Buckley

  Pain, Gun, What Matters

  "Jeff Buckley: Remembered". TV Movie, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This spread of obesity foreshadows an explosion in degenerative diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer waiting to erupt in our children's future. Together we can stop this tragedy from ever happening.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Children, Cancer, Heart

  Joel Fuhrman, M.D. (2010). “Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right”, p.23, Macmillan

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• My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!

  Arthur F. Burns

  Government, Effort, Political

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• If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Thinking, Virginia

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• Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

  Arthur Ernest Morgan

  Greatness, Men, Important

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• Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

  Robert J. Donovan

  Giving Up, Failure, Aging

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• Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Misery, Kicks, Ought

  Letter to A. W. McLeod, 6 October 1912, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 1

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• Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

  Stefan Zweig

  Uplifting, Heart, Ambition

  "Stellar Moments in Human History". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1953.

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• Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.

  Howard Barker

  Art, Pain, Giving

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• It is impossible - now, at this point in the long journey of human culture - to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful...

  Howard Barker

  Beautiful, Pain, Character

  Howard Barker (2004). “Death, The One and the Art of Theatre”, p.105, Routledge

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• You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

  Howard Barker

  Lying, Musical, Fool

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• Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.

  Vidkun Quisling

  War, Europe, Race

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• The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Suicide, Survival, Committed

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated females”

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• Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Opportunity, Plight

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.18, Vintage

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• 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

  Loss, Government, Order

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• The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Never Quit, Enough

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.80, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Emotion, Photographer, Claims

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• That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

  Rudy Vallee

  Men, Needs, Palm Beach

  "Fictional character: John D. Hackensacker III". "The Palm Beach Story", www.imdb.com. August 28, 1942.

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• Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

  Mark Nepo

  Feelings, Done, Alive

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.183, Conari Press

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• It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

  Claude Monet

  World, Moral, Common

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• I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

  Shepard Smith

  Triumph, Enjoy

  "Five Minutes with Shepard Smith". FOX News interview, www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2005.

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• The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

  Carmen Laforet

  Stupid, Secret, Tears

  Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”

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• To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

  William Easterly

  Ideas, Tough, Searchers

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