#tragic

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice. ↗

— David Duchovny

#huge #loss #making #myself #privacy

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

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky. ↗

— Thom Filicia

#boring #dull #far #more #tacky

As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#campus #children #colleges #daughters #dorm

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

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. ↗

— Robert Wilson Lynd

#almost #golf #how #impossible #place

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#education #educational #find #future #going

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. ↗

— David Mamet

#anything #artist #become #create #devour

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