“I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.” KnowsWorldHeartMaySchoolParentDifficultSadnessEventsTragedyWorkersTouchedTragicUnbelievableDifficult TimesMassacresElementary SchoolWrappingCo WorkerConnecticutTragic Events Author:Pamela Moore
“Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam... These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world.” WorldEndsTodayAmericaMilitaryEventsPrideTragicVietnamEnd Of The WorldVietnam War Author:Gerald R. Ford
“Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life.” LifeHateForceOur LivesEventsIraqConvincedDestructiveTragicMondayJulyCoupsTragic Events Author:Ala Bashir
“I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.” IfsHappenedBloodEventsChinaTragicPlagueDecorationTragic Events Author:Fernando Pessoa
“Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.” MayDoeCountryAblePurposeSocialEventsCircumstancesConflictEatingRemainsHungerTragicProtestSymbolicLiteralStarvationMetaphoric Book:The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness
“I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.” LongAmericaRememberCertainTurnsEventsKingsProportionTragicLutherBobby Kennedy Author:Richard Schiff
“We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive to concentrate on the remedies, and leave things that couldn't be solved to happen without thinking about them. There is a morbid human curiosity associated with tragic death-producing events. Though naturally, this needs to be kept in perspective.” ThinkingNeedsHumansHappensChallengesEventsPerspectiveAspectCuriosityFlightProductiveTragicRemedyMorbidInvestigating Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I know sometimes tragic or humiliating events propel you into a better life, I've experienced that for sure, but it still hurts. It still burns. I think sometimes it hurts more because you can't wish it had never happened. It improved your life in the long run.” ThinkingKnowsLongStillsSometimesRunningWishHurtHappenedEventsTragicLong RunsIt HurtsBetter LifeHumiliatingIt Still HurtsSometimes It Hurts Book:Elliott Smith Source: Elliott Smith
“There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are built together, they float. So with the events of my life. Some have been tragic. Some have been happy. But when they are built together, they form a craft that floats and is going places. And I am comforted.” Has BeensTogetherFormTakenEventsBuiltShipsCraftsTragicEnginesFloatsPropeller Author:Ralph Washington Sockman
“We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.” WorldMadeEventsMonthsCitizensTragicTurmoilInauguralInaugural AddressNo Turning BackTragic Events Author:Woodrow Wilson
“We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events, both because of their novelty and because of the natural malignity that exists within us.” LoveNaturalPleasureSecretExistenceEventsTragicUnusualNoveltySaddestUnusual ThingsTragic Events Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas.” ThinkingFoundDifficultSituationSupportEventsAreasBritainTragicMexicoDifficult SituationsGulf Of MexicoTragic Events Author:Vladimir Putin
“The end of Students for a Democratic Society is viewed by me and a lot of other people as a terrible sorry in many ways, tragic event even though I participated in it and played some role in it. But I regret a lot of that.” PeopleWayEndsRolesEventsStudentsRegretTerribleDemocraticSorryTragicI RegretDemocratic SocietyTragic Events Author:Bill Ayers