#tragic

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#areas #attacks #england #how #just

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#had #i #league #mistake #nations

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#adulthood #disadvantaged #force #house #one-quarter

Pero, para colmo, nadie te podrá garantizar lo porvenir, porvenir que en cualquier caso es triste: si fracasás, porque el fracaso es siempre penoso y, en el artista, trágico; si triunfás, porque el triunfo es una especie de vulgaridad, una suma de malentendidos, un manoseo; convirtiéndote en esa asquerosidad que se llama un hombre público, y con derecho (¿con derecho?) un chico, como vos mismo eras al comienzo, te podrá escupir.Y también deberás aguantar esa injusticia, agachar el lomo y seguir produciendo tu obra, como quien levanta una estatua en un chiquero ↗

— Ernesto Sabato

#porvenir #tragico #tristeza #art

DEMON MATH What is JUST in a world you've ripped in two as if there could be a half for me a half for you what is FAIR when there is nothing left to share what is YOURS when your pain is mine to bear this sad math is mine this mad path is mine subtract they say don't cry back to the desk try forget addition multiply and i reply this is why remainders hate division. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#lena #tragic-love-story #beauty

The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the Capitol's rules. My private agenda dovetails completely with my public one. And if I really could save Peeta... in terms of a revolution, this would be ideal. Because I will be more valuable dead. They can turn me into some kind of martyr for the cause and paint my face on banners, and it will do more to rally people than anything I could do if I was living. But Peeta would be more valuable alive, and tragic, because he will be able to turn his pain into words that will transform people. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#catching #fire #games #hunger #inspirational

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically. ↗

— Dave Barry

#appear #assume #complicated #guys #just

You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#gates-of-paradise #melissa-de-la-cruz #oliver-hazard-perry #tragic #warrior

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#africa #bad #bad review #decide #difficult

Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#snape #tragic #death