#tragedies

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#balance #been #between #blessings #camp

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#i #just #personal #some #some things

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#comedies #i #like #more #than

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

#could #doing #done #ever #everything

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

#because #crime #desire #discrimination #due

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#affections #answer #armies #birth #death

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

— Oscar Wilde

#always #infinitely #mean #other #people

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

#deeper #denial #even #extensive #falsely

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

#because #cards #courageous #deal #handed

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. ↗

— Edward Bond

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