An American Tragedy Quotes

#1. Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on, or someone must write "The End" to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.

Gerald R. Ford

#2. I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.

Paul Haggis

#3. There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.

Robert Gottlieb

#5. An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

Gerald R. Ford

#6. You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.

Guillaume Canet

#7. Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.

Jean Baudrillard

#8. Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

Michael Bay

#9. I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

Anne-Marie Duff

#10. L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

Quentin Tarantino

#11. The paradox of this arrangement was not lost on Lewis Mumford, who described suburbia as "a collective effort to live a private life." In many ways, this goes to the heart of the matter, for it is a project based on self-contradiction - the tragedy of American domestic

Morris Berman

#12. And I said, I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

Charles Bukowski

#13. The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.

Walter Lippmann

#14. I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush

#15. Don't let disappointment be the measure of your relationship with a person. Let trust be the measure.

Nicole Williams

#16. Whenever there's a tragedy involving gun use, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, the gun-control lobby and the news media seize it as another opportunity to exploit the emotions of uninformed American people for political gain.

Walter E. Williams

#17. Tonight I played for you like a woman in love. It was wonderful. It was the best moment of my entire life.

Paulo Coelho

#18. I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.

Larry Kramer

#19. I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.

Julian Castro

#20. You know what Munny said to me, right before we left? She said, 'Watching someone die is hard work. Go to Australia and watch Faye fall in love with some dude named Rabbit. That should be fun.

Elle Lothlorien

#21. The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

Eckhart Tolle

#22. You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

Colin Powell

#23. I don't drink Pellegrino and Perrier, but my nieces and nephews do.

Khloe Kardashian

#24. We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be.

Martin O'Malley

#25. Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

Mig Greengard

#26. That does not mean we won't experience the tragedy of the loss of some American lives. We will have an opportunity to instill a democracy in Iraq which will be an example and perhaps force other nations in that region to move in the same direction.

John McCain

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

Jack Abramoff

#28. It [9/11 tragedy] has affected us on so many levels: economically, morally, spiritually, ethically. It's been all over the place. A new American identity emerged - we now live in a very different America. This is the power of the definitive event.

Porochista Khakpour

#29. The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

Douglas Hurd

#30. 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.

Andrew Sullivan

#31. France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States ... In these terrible circumstances, all French people stand by the American people. We express our friendship and solidarity in this tragedy.

Jacques Chirac

#32. It appears that the ground of being which underlies
and sustains us despite our various inadequate and
conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous,
and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt
if we were, too.

Alexei Panshin

#33. What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

William Dean Howells

#34. The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

Emily Post

#35. Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln

#36. Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

Ezra Pound

#37. But since Freud still conceives the mind as a closed system, desires are not expelled but only hidden away.

Sigmund Freud

#38. We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

Helen Clark

#39. Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

Frank Brady

#40. It considers this Jesus as ultimately decisive, definitive, archetypal for man in these various dimensions of his.

Hans Kung

#41. We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Tony Blair

#42. When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.

Audre Lorde

#43. I think the tragedy of Barack Obama's presidency is that although a lot of people around the world really admire Barack Obama a lot, they don't admire the American political and economic model as much as they used to.

Peter Beinart