#tragic

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#back #biologists #capacity #collective #evolutionary

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know. ↗

— Susan George

#accounts #arithmetic #because #crude #know

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. ↗

— John Locke

#half #i #lifetime #moment #more

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#gourmet #just #me #meal #seems

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. ↗

— George McGovern

#case #identity #mistaken #tragic #whole

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#get #know #lot #over #over it

Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#been #brilliant #figure #first #four

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself. ↗

— David Millar

#also #back #bikes #bones #break

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#had #haircuts #i #icons #lives

I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#hairdos #i #lot #outfits #tragic