#tragic

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#bonus #just #life #out #since

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. ↗

— James Thurber

#depend #economics #farce #funnier #his

Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure. ↗

— Brian Walker

#brown #charlie #charlie brown #figure #tragic

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. ↗

— Earl Warren

#failure #found #imperatives #internationalism #most

Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him - that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#attack #back #before #commitment #does

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#been #conformity #creative #despotism #differences

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#arrive #beginnings #being #common #endings

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. ↗

— John Green

#cancer #creatures #easy #either #else

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#civilization #clearly #collapse #history #led

Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best. ↗

— Robert H. Austin

#become #best #better #climate #frenzy