#tragedy

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. ↗

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy. ↗

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#attack #attacks #attempted #back #because

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#believe #give #life #love #ready

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#connected #family #global #had #i

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#effort #situation #talent #tragedy #without

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy. ↗

— John Dyer

#someone #terrible #terrible thing #thing #tragedy

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#child #death #get #life #like

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46. ↗