Tragic Accidents Quotes

• There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Courage, Heart, Compassion

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• Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

  John Malkovich

  Writing, Shooting, Want

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• I respect everything the District Attorney and Sheriff’s Office did to thoroughly investigate this tragic accident. While the process was long and emotionally difficult, it allowed for all the facts of the accident to be identified and known.

  Tony Stewart

  Office, Long, Facts

  "Grand jury declines to indict NASCAR's Tony Stewart", www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2014.

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• We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

  Diane Sawyer

  Country, Thinking, Pilots

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• This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still run, sometimes with little more than a hiccup to the system. It may be that for every strange clinical case in which brain damage leads to a bizarre change in behavior or perception, there are hundreds of cases in which parts of the brain are damaged with no detectable clinical sign.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Party, Political

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