Tragic Quotes - Page 21

• People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.

  Fred Durst

  Fun, People, Life Is

  "Fred Durst Digs Wes Borland's New Band But Still Wants To Get Back To Bizkit" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. April 26, 2007.

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• All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies came together and they struggled and they stood up for justice and they stood up to lynching and they stood up to segregation and the stood up to a nation where African-Americans couldn't even vote in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  White, America, Lynching

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• 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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• Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.

  Max Lucado

  Passion, Losing, Life Is

  Max Lucado (2013). “Second Chances: More Stories of Grace”, p.64, Thomas Nelson

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• When America does not lead, the world is a dangerous and a tragic place. This is a bad deal. [Barack] Obama broke every rule of negotiation.Yes, our allies are not perfect, but Iran is at the heart of most of the evil that is going on in the Middle East through their proxy.

  Carly Fiorina

  Heart, Iran, America

  Annotated transcript: The Aug. 6 GOP debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night in the thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he'd lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you, and that's a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Father, Mistake

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible - but there it is.

  Robert W. Hemphill

  Commercial Banks, Bankers, Dollars

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• Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Bearing Witness, Circumstances

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• Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life.

  Ala Bashir

  Life, Monday, Hate

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• Are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life--a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?

  George Eliot

  Work, Struggle, Men

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2423, Delphi Classics

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• Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

  Henry Wriston

  Life, War, Self

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• Whenever you’re down on your luck, and when things aren’t going the way you like, remember that you are the author of your own story. You can write it any way you like, with anyone you choose. And it can be a beautiful story or a sad and tragic one. You get to pick.

  Sarah Jio

  Beautiful, Writing, Luck

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• Love is unpredictable and it’s frustrating and it’s tragic and it’s beautiful.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Love Is, Unpredictable

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• There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for. I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged. I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Native American

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• In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

  John Chancellor

  Character, People, Tragedy

  John Chancellor (1995). “The New News Business: A Guide to Writing and Reporting”, Harper Perennial

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• Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in
  the end.

  Charlton Heston

  Fall, Play, Events

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• War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Stupid, Men

  Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, www.dwightdeisenhower.com. June 03, 1947.

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• When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.

  Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

  Struggle, Men, Joy

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• Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to note the attitude of workers towards their boss, and equally interesting to note the attitude towards the workers. It is tragic to notice how many chief executives of large concerns are absolutely unknown, even by sight, to the rank and file of their workers.

  B. C. Forbes

  Attitude, Sight, Interesting

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• Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Violence, Reminders

  "Billy Graham, on Satan and Jonestown" by Edwin Clark, www.nytimes.com. December 05, 1978.

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• The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 ... Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government.

  Milton Friedman

  Garden, Government, Investing

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• Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Destiny, Games, Long

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• Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

  Rebecca West

  Acceptance, Loss, Trying

  Rebecca West (1977). “Rebecca West, a celebration”, Viking Adult

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• If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.

  Aristotle

  Character, Play, Together

  Aristotle (2016). “Poetics”, p.22, Aristotle

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• The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

  Edith Hamilton

  Views, Opposites, Perspective

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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