Tragic Quotes - Page 11

• There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, Attitude

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.166, 谷月社

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• Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

  Napoleon Hill

  Common, Inertia

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.86, Penguin

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• If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Writing, Two

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• Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!

  Zig Ziglar

  Funny Things, People, Problem

  Zig Ziglar (1977). “See You at the Top”

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• For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof. Thoughts and words, captured where I could see them and track them. The truth, stinging, on my skin, in a freakish shorthand. Tell me you're going to the doctor, and I'll want to cut worrisome on my arm. Say you've fallen in love and I buzz the outlines of tragic over my breast. I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured.

  Gillian Flynn

  Cutting, Doctors, Names

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• To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

  Edmond Rostand

  Hero, Faces, Danger

  Edmond Rostand, Howard Thayer Kingsbury (2004). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, People, Suffering

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• It's tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don't have a fixed idea of God. But I feel that it's us - the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing - that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do.

  Mike Doughty

  Hipster, Artist, Spirituality

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• I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

  China Mieville

  Real, Thinking, Self

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• Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other.

  John Walford

  Creativity, Fate, Light

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• Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Husband, Hair

  "The centre of my universe" by Ayelet Waldman, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2005.

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• For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.

  Judge Reinhold

  Girl, Home, Kids

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• I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

  Louise Penny

  Successful, Thinking, Awards

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• I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

  Samantha Morton

  Wells, Materials, Happened

  "Not afraid of the dark" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2007.

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• I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.

  Etgar Keret

  Fun, Grateful, Writing

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• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Song, Pain, Believe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backward-thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.

  John Hickenlooper

  Couple, Mean, Thinking

  "Hickenlooper Haunted By ‘Backward-Thinking’ Comment". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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• I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.

  Pamela Moore

  Heart, School, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Pamela Moore from Dec 14, 2012

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• Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They must constantly demonstrate to courts and legislatures alike the tragic results of legal nonintervention. They must highlight how legal doctrines no longer bear any relation to reality, whether in landlord and tenant law, holder in due course law, or any other law. In sum, lawyers must bring real morality into the legal consciousness

  William J. Brennan

  Real, Law, People

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• To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.

  Meredith L. Young-Sowers

  Mistake, Perspective, Understanding

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• It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.

  Kedar Joshi

  Life, Devil, Divinity

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• The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

  Harpo Marx

  Greatness, Men, Ordinary

  Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber (2004). “Harpo Speaks!”, p.400, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

  Leslie Easterbrook

  Character, Play, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

  Leslie Easterbrook

  Mother, Character, Firefly

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

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• The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Adoption, Important, Way

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