#tragedies

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#gain #heart #life #lose #other

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

#events #liars #make #own #people

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

#been #black #could #ghetto #growing

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

— Oscar Wilde

#always #infinitely #mean #other #people

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

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

#comedies #histories #invariably #society #tragedies

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

— Edward Bond

#greeks #said #their #things #tragedies

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government. ↗

— James Bovard

#government #great #know #learn #most

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

#both #both sides #coin #consider #course

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

#back #bush #bush administration #business #deal