Tragedies Quotes

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
Sam Shepard

Life, Great, America

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Knowledge, Ghosts, Witches

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.
Nina Bawden

Liars, Themselves, Story

'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.
Andrew Davies

Personal, Watching, Likely

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.
Anne Heche

Yourself, Important, Talk

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.
Pete du Pont

Business, Philosophy, Friends

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
Stokely Carmichael

Struggle, Black, Racism

Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.
Gregg Allman

Life, Good, Mind

I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here.
Story Musgrave

Wish, Here, Played

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Alone, Important, Cannot

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
Charlton Heston

Society, True, Wounds

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'
Mick Cornett

Problem, Said, Word

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
Judith Guest

Successful, Seems, Deal

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.
Patti Page

Life, Able, Sing

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.
Randy Forbes

Government, Since, Security

I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange.
Charles Guggenheim

Time, War, Strange

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.
Edward Dowden

Villains, Browning

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