#tragic

I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#brought #certainly #here #i #i am

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#florida #highlights #importance #known #making

It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#back #character #create #creating #developing

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ↗

— George Orwell

#does #exists #felt #forces #him

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. ↗

— Walter Pater

#attitude #before #brilliancy #day #discriminate

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#change #cherish #cooperation #economic #economic change

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#always #burlesque #comedy #dupe #fox

The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#care #course #good #good health #having

I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake. ↗

— Collin C. Peterson

#events #i #i am #lake #personally

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance. ↗

— John Malkovich

#die #directors #during #everything #expect