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World history is tragic.


Friedrich Durrenmatt
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.


Eddie Vedder
Tags: Life Make Need
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People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.


Fred Durst
Tags: People Life Fun
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The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.


Greg Kinnear
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.


Henry Adams
Tags: Power Always Had
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You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.


Elaine Stritch
Tags: Funny You Unless
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
Louis Leakey
Tags: Show Art French
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The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.


Piet Mondrian
Tags: He Artist Express
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A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.


Phil McGraw
Tags: You People Get
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Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.


Billy Graham
It seems that Argentina is incapable of looking critically at its tragic military adventure in the Falklands.
Pepe Eliaschev
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I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.


Kenneth Branagh
Tags: Think He Figure
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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.


Robert Wilson Lynd
Tags: World How Place
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It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.


Anne Rice
Tags: People Think Who
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.


Ursula K. Le Guin
The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
Bill Nelson
Tags: Our Making Known
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Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.


Billy Graham
Tags: Death Our World
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
Paul Feig
Tags: Always Very Being
That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.
Laurie Lee
Tags: Out Got Story
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Tags: Always Life Only
That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.
Jonathan Ive
Tags: Design You Just
I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
Rand Paul
Tags: Who Up Many
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
Paloma Faith
Tags: Music Alone You
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
Wassily Kandinsky
Tags: Time Our World
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Tags: Freedom Out Been
The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.
Ismail Kadare
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.
Skeet Ulrich
Tags: Get Life Way
Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
Patrick deWitt
Tags: Work More Know
It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.
Margaret Cho
Tags: Change People Who
I had a really tragic cut at the beginning of Season 2 of 'Ally McBeal.' Someone convinced me that it would be good to layer my hair. I basically looked like Ronald McDonald.
Jane Krakowski
Tags: Good Me Like
I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
Sally Kirkland
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.
William Jay Smith
Tags: Age Beauty Love
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
Thabo Mbeki
My cousin was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, and it's just a really tragic disease, and as of yet there is no cure, so I feel I want to get it as much publicity to do it as I can.
Nick Robinson
Tags: Just Get Really
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
I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of.
Peter Hook
Tags: Great Change Know
This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.
John Sununu
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
Alfred Jodl
Tags: Only Now Should
While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
Fatema Mernissi
Tags: Women Men Fear