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One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.

It’s a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.

If you don’t win, it’s not a great tragedy – the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

It is one of history’s great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century – a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.

It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer. To their peril, they ignore that spiritual lifeline just at the time when their attention to it most needs to be intensified. By so doing they cut themselves of from revelation and inspiration and deprive themselves of hearing the Lord’s voice. They give up the prospect of gaining the very hope and comfort for which their hearts yearn.

It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life’s preciousness on our tiny planet.

What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother’s smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life’s great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the world’s people, those of the West included, are taught to believe rather than to think. It’s much easier to believe than to think. People seldom think seriously about that which we are taught to believe, because we are all creatures of imitation and habit.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn’ t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can’t point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, ‘I can’t complain.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one’s grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty – and it’s responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays – even great tragedies – have enormous humor in them.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.