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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde

Life, Two, Only, Other, Wants, Getting

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

World, Genuine, Wrong, Two, Right

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Robert Ballard

Sea, Peaceful, Rest, Quiet, Place

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? Emile M. Cioran

Nature, Present, Us, Insect, Left, Would

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. David Mamet

Failure, Peace, Great, War, Tragedy

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had. Robin Gibb

Family, Bee, Fame, Wonder, Sometimes

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. - George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. George Bernard Shaw

Life, Heart, Lose, Desire, Two, Other

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. Oscar Wilde

People, Always, Mean, Something, Other

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life. Chandra Wilson

Life, Happiness, You, Find, Silver

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw

Life, Heart, Desire, Two, Your, Other

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more. Dave Grohl

Great, Doing, Know, Done, More, Imagine

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are. Tony Dorsett

Selfish, You, Realize, How, Make

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. Stephen Jay Gould

Life, Hope, Science, Opportunity, Limit

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. Johnny Ball

Life, Work, Age, Great, Living, You

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways. Glenn Close

Me, Think, House, Street, See, Always

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, Racism, People, Organization

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. Jean Cocteau

Life, Simplicity, Ideas, Design, Bear

Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea. Diana Rigg

Women, True, Will, Predict, Happen, Gods

Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront the loss of home, parent, friends and fondest pets, these films imposed shock therapy on four-year-olds. Richard Corliss

Home, Children, Cute, Loss, Parent

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. Nora Ephron

Life, Mother, Day, Potential, Understand

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, Fall, America, Common

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. Jessica Lange

Life, Age, Death, Loss, More, Familiar

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. Paul Klee

Life, Art, Expression, Further, Whether

For me, one of the great tragedies is the conclusion studios have drawn about traditional animation. I believe that 2D animation could be just as vital as it ever was. I think the problem has been with the stories. Ed Catmull

Great, Me, Believe, Think, Problem, Been

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

I Am, People, Me, Wish, Without, Here

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin. Graham Nash

War, People, Important, Try, Say, Never

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