#tragedy

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#fact #good #hurricane #hurricane katrina #i

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#american #divided #europe #into #leaving

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cannot #coexist #hiroshima #humanity #japan

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. ↗

— William Barclay

#going #him #insist #know #knowing

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#also #because #came #could #crazy

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

— Carter Burwell

#expect #help #hurt #systems #tragedy

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#been #between #comedy #discomfort #drawn

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#altogether #apart #axis #cannot #defeat

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