Homelessness among seniors is a tragedy we never want to see happen. Fortunately, the city does not have a large population of seniors without permanent housing, and although we have seen a slight increase - less than one-half percent - they make up less than 3 percent of the city's homeless population overall.

Angela Allen

These were women who did not make a habit of taking their clothes off in public before they began performing at the Windmill. I suppose we could view all of this as politically incorrect, but the truth is that what happened at the Windmill brought many people together as a means of escaping the tragedy that was surrounding them.

Stephen Frears

The tragedy of teen driver crashes goes well beyond the teen driver and their teen passengers. These crashes also kill pedestrians and people in other vehicles -- that's somebody's mother, child, brother or grandmother.

Laurie Ghesquiere

Tragedy waiting to happen.

Harry Roberts

That might be the one piece there that solves this whole tragedy.

Tommy Maddox

The real tragedy of today's decision … is that it significantly diminishes the breathing space … that is imperative for a vigorous and competent press.

William Cooper

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

Courts are not immune to the sadness and tragedy that a case represents.

Jeffrey Miller

On the day she's due to leave there will be a family tragedy that prevents her from coming, and that's the last he ever sees of his 2,000 dollars.

Duncan Forrest

There's a human tragedy of magnificent proportion taking place here. I don't think putting everyone in jail is contributing to a solution.

Thomas Siebel

It was a national tragedy. It would not be appropriate to have champagne because of the nature of the event.

Peter Kovacs

This is a once in a generation type of thing. If you think about it, it's just a tragedy for our nation right now. One thing I see that's really great about it -- football is a sport where it's the same everywhere. I think it just makes us better, really, to have guys from different programs come in.

Scott May

People think of giving blood as something you do in response to a national tragedy or a natural disaster. But really, giving blood is needed year round -- everyday.

Heather Parsons

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

I am now finding more and more journalists saying, 'It has taken a tragedy of enormous proportions, but maybe, maybe we are returning to our roots,' and those roots are in the business of information, not entertainment.

Jim Lehrer

All of us at MSHA deeply grieve the loss of these miners' lives, and I want to assure their families and friends that we are conducting an uncompromising investigation into this accident. We will uncover the truth of why this tragedy happened, and how we can best protect miners in the future.

David G. Dye

Every firefighter knows that he is always susceptible to this type of tragedy. They go to work every day knowing that they are doing something so positive, that people really respect them and people appreciate them.

Thomas Von Essen

Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.

Howard Barker

It is something we have to carry through for Steve. I have forgiven Mr. Hill for what he had done, but God is the one who has to judge. I do feel compassion for his family. It is two families brought together by tragedy.

Gary Mace

I pleaded with them then to do something about local councils which won't - or haven't the funds to - give desperate families help. I care for a son with autism and I know what I am talking about. I can feel the pain of this terrible tragedy. We do not want there to be more.

Ivan Corea

I was devastated. I had time to formulate a plan on how to make something positive out of this tragedy.

Janne Darata

This tragedy has never been about Aaron O'Neal the football player.

Bob Bunton

We've taken extensive action at the Toledo refinery since the tragedy of Texas City.

Ronnie Chappell

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

Margaret Sackville

The terrible tragedy of Katrina brought a silver lining and that's more scrutiny of Bush's foreign and domestic policy.

Bill Dobbs

The thing about the Paralympics is, they're not only incredible athletes, but all of them have been through some sort of tragedy, whether it's from an accident, an illness or even a military injury.

Bob Condron

That's a New York story: New Yorkers helping other New Yorkers in tragedy and distress.

Michael Miller

The real tragedy is for Billy, not for the team.

Tom Lamb

He hasn't asked. He's mentioned [the explosion]. He said it was a tragedy. [But] I don't want to push him. We'll need to sit down and I'll ask questions when [he indicates] he's ready.

Anna Mccloy

We have all been saddened by the tragedy still unfolding in the United States.

Malcolm Wicks

We must do what is necessary do help the victims of this terrible tragedy, but we should make sure it is done in a way that does not add onto the already mounting debt, ... The best way to do this .

Joe Lieberman

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

Ahmed Chalabi

Our hearts and deepest sympathies go out to the families affected by this tragedy. We are stunned by this senseless act of violence, which has taken a great man and friend of our family.

Mark Young

They've been a great team prior to the tragedy but since then they've bonded closer together. I've won a lot of these but this is a special one. This is as good as it gets.

Joe Grippo

The guys really wanted to get it for him. It was his first time back since the tragedy and it was great to have him back.

Marlin Jackson

Some of the treatment wasn't very good. Some of it was quite natural -- that people didn't plan for this kind of tragedy. So when the tragedy occurred the response was often on an ad hoc basis, and the response often had gaps in it.

Peter Goelz

The facts don`t reflect the human tragedy for his partner, family and friends.

David Hunter

In light of recent events in Texas City, and the findings of our team, we determined that this recommendation could not wait for the completion of our full root-cause investigation next year. We also concluded that an examination of BP's corporate oversight and culture is an essential ingredient for the full understanding of the tragedy in Texas City.

Carolyn W. Merritt

Obviously, a terrible tragedy. They've lost animals, they've lost their structure, I understand there were irreplaceable instruments and so forth. So, very tragic for them.

Chief Lee Soptich

[By 4 a.m., after no word came that they had missed the flight, school superintendent David Black chartered two buses to take relatives and friends on the four and a half hour trip to New York's Kennedy Airport.] They were booked on that flight, ... It's a monumental tragedy.

David Black

Surmount this great national tragedy.

Chandrika Kumaratunga

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

James Branch Cabell

It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased — being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on — to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.

Jay Allen

This is a call for the people of the City of New York who lived through that tragedy . . . to stand up and say no.

Patrick Lynch

Everyone involved in this episode understands this moment as a tragedy. How they respond to it is storytelling gold. Some of them will go really dark. Some of them will be unable to recover emotionally. Some of them will understand that life is very short and precious and that they need to stop being afraid of the things or people that they want in their lives.

Mark Schwahn

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Bernard Malamud

I think our feeling was, yes, there had been a tragedy here, but there was as much we could do to redeem the house by putting together the loving household we tried to put together here.

Tom Driscoll

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

Failure to immediately comply with human rights standards will deepen the human-induced tragedy already inflicted on the survivors of the tsunami.

Miloon Kothari

The really interesting people we meet in our lives are mixed with comedy and tragedy.

Callie Thorne

After a tragedy, we find a way to shake the troubles. It's a somber locker room since they found out. But they have been very businesslike.

Jim Caldwell

A lot of times kids, maybe they're resilient to begin with. And they've got good coping skills when the tragedy happens ... They're able to see the silver lining to the cloud.

Robert Sevier

While so many children are agonizing through this tragedy, ... those who suffered through the nightmare in the Superdome draw strongly on our compassion.

Dave Phillips

Key to the successful implementation of any emergency plan is the level of cooperation between local, state and federal officials, ... The tragedy in the Gulf States illustrates just how important it is to plan and prepare for the worst.

Steve Levy

Our Academy represents thousands of music people across the country, many of whom were directly affected by the New Orleans tragedy. Music's Biggest Night wouldn't be complete if we didn't take this unique opportunity to pay homage to a region with such rich musical history and culture. New Orleans, we'll always be there for you.

Neil Portnow

It simply tells a story about two rather unremarkable men and their tragedy. It doesn't wave a banner of triumph over any lifestyle. It is a story about life. A realistic story, and a very sad story.

Diana Ossana

Its just a proactive approach by the Postal Service nationwide to make sure that we don't have a repeat of the tragedy that we had in October of 2001.

James Adams

It's a tragedy that one person stuck in the past can prevent our community from moving forward.

Keith Boykin

[It is] such a tragedy that the Justice Department backed away from their original cessation remedy, ... Can you imagine what would happen if, as we projected with this plan, 1 million additional smokers quit each year 33 million over time?

Michael Fiore

Sports has a way of transcending what's appropriate, and that's OK. It's accepted. I'm sure the Saints will use [the Katrina tragedy] to motivate them all season long, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Tiki Barber

From beginning to end this situation is a tragedy, and it remains a tragedy. There is a man murdered brutally in a park -- that's a tragedy. His family, the Rivera family, are the forgotten ones now.

Joseph Towle

This was a tragedy that was avoidable.

Richard Hooker

That would be a tragedy above all for the world's poor, but rich countries would not be immune to the consequences of failure. In an interdependent world our shared prosperity and collective security depend critically on success in the war against poverty.

Kemal Dervis

One tragedy here, one tragedy there, ... We go through different acts, but we all go through the same pain, the same suffering, the same recovery.

Van Orden

In Greek tragedy, you can't go down crying.

John Iorio

It?s a terrible tragedy. I have no words.

Rhoda Katz

The high loss of life suggests the police acted with extreme brutality … A police force acting responsibly would not have allowed such a tragedy to occur.

Joe Stork

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney

[Economist Robert Walters of Quicken Loans in Livonia, Mich., agreed.] The Fed is sticking to its guns, ... They took pains to address the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, but they also made it clear that they see it as a short-term event from the economic perspective.

Robert Walters

From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.

Maxwell L. Anderson

I think the crew of the Challenger would be so pleased to see what has come out of that tragedy.

Mary Patterson

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years -- except they had little to do with being a child.

Liza Minnelli

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm really upset, seeing the human tragedy. It's true reality TV. It's sad watching the mothers struggling with their kids, and there doesn't seem to be any relief.

John Dunn

This ruling will ensure that surviving domestic partners will not lose their homes at the moment they are dealing with the tragedy of having lost their life partners. California law mandates equal treatment of all families, and we are relieved the court affirmed this sensible, pro-family rule.

Kate Kendell

Companies in the eastern part of the United States are overburdened with their operating costs, and they're no longer competitive. It's a tragedy in the firearms industry.

Jim Shepherd

It's a walk of remembrance, a commemorative event for the victims of the twin towers, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania, ... [We must] reflect on the tragedy of that day and the events that have unfolded from it, and recommit to the ideals of freedom that epitomize our country and our vow to never forget.

Greg Hicks

Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone whose lives have been touched by this tragedy. We are devastated. We will continue to do everything possible to assist our guests and their family members.

Dan Hanrahan

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle

That's the tragedy of this. She never got a chance to get the help she needs from the people who wanted to provide it. Her family.

Leone Nunley

When the tragedy first happened, I wished there was a way I could go there and help.

Tristan Taylor

Certain incidents, like the Taylor Coles murder, that was outrageous even to the lowest form of life out there, ... Unfortunately, it can take a tragedy like that to get people to rally behind the police.

William Joyce

Similar to the [SE Asian] tsunami tragedy, this hurricane is another dreadful natural disaster that these ruthless hackers are exploiting in order to break into computers for spamming, extortion, and theft.

Gregg Mastoras

It's a tragedy that public schools continue to sell soda to our children for money. They should be the one place that should remain free from intense marketing from the soda and junk food companies.

Harold Goldstein

Our nation recommitted itself to making manned space flight as safe as possible after the Challenger explosion. But these efforts have lagged amid the budget pressures and cuts of recent years. Now, in the wake of this new tragedy, we need to make a new commitment. And we must live up to it.

Bill Nelson

This is a tragedy---truly a tragedy that we have let this get this far without doing something about it.

Terry Hammond

Spending $5 billion a year on tobacco cessation for 25 years would profoundly improve the health of Americans, ... This is why it is such a tragedy that the Justice Department backed away from their original cessation remedy. Can you imagine what would happen if, as we projected with this plan, one million additional smokers quit each year -- 33 million over time?

Michael Fiore

I want to assure all of our consumers and our retailers that I will do everything in my power to ensure that no other family, no other child, suffers a similar tragedy.

Paul Harrington

The ads are compelling and make a statement about how valiant these human beings are. These stories are ones of hope and triumph over potential tragedy.

Jeff Scott

I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors themselves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage.

Jim Morrison

A man-made tragedy caused by Mother Nature.

Michael Doucet

Myself and Kelvin both had stunt doubles. And Charlie Kemp who plays Max had a dummy. They had shots of us driving the cars but at a safe distance from each other. And then the crash ends in tragedy, which is very exciting.

Karl Davies

I say to the world no peace with occupation. Occupation contradicts peace. If they want security, the tragedy of the Palestinians should be ended.

Abdel Aziz Rantissi

It's a tragedy, and our hearts go out to the family. It's just been devastating. All of us are feeling it, too.

Terry Mcdonald

My fellow Katrina survivors and I have experienced more tragedy in the last six months than most people have in a lifetime. We have lost relatives, friends and our community. The federal government should live up to its responsibility to rebuild.

Dorothy Stukes

We have two families that have intersected in time and the tragedy is horrendous and there's nothing we can do about it. It's just very, very sad.

James Donahue

I just think what we are seeing here is a terrible human tragedy.

William Burns

Even a simplified stability test, which usually only takes one day, would have identified a problem with the Ethan Allen and the tragedy would not have occurred.

Gary Peters

The tragedy suffered by the United States is a tragedy to every democratic nation.

Ferenc Madl

We think there's a history of domestic disturbances here. There were some marital problems, culminating in the tragedy that happened today.

Joey Giordano

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

Michael Bay

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

We know that the day-to-day for the Army team will be a challenge and we're coming together as a team to do anything we can to help them out as they heal from this terrible tragedy.

Melissa Mcferrin

A little research can go a long way to stopping the con artists who try to turn this tragedy into a profit-making venture. By making sure a charity checks out, those who are giving can make sure their valuable contributions reach the countless victims of this devastating natural disaster.

Charles E. Grassley

It's a tremendous natural tragedy that has occurred and America has mobilized itself to help our own citizens. It's going to require some concentrated effort over a period of time, but I think it's going much better today.

Ricardo Sanchez

With all the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, it was great to see all of these people come and support the people of Matagorda County who need help.

Tressa Leadford

On the one hand, you had such great success in the music business, and on the flip side there was so much personal tragedy. It makes for such an interesting story. I think that's one reason the public relates to this band. They know these guys are still human beings.

Terry Weeks

Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who was affected by this tragedy.

Avery Johnson

I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness.

Zach Braff

This just looks like the oil and gas industry are shamelessly using the tragedy of Katrina and Rita to try and push their special-interest agenda through Congress. We need to address our energy needs, but we don't need to jeopardize our environment and economy to do it, and we shouldn't use a national tragedy as cover for bad policy.

Lois Capps

[For his role in the tragedy, Velez received a sentence of three-to-six years in jail.] Everywhere Sergio beat Linda and cut her open, she started to scar, ... She never recovered her beauty, but she was still beautiful to me.

Jayson Williams

This legislation will give my office the much-needed enforcement authority to aggressively go after those who take advantage of consumers when tragedy strikes.

Jim Petro

They were booked on that flight. It's a monumental tragedy.

David Black

We want to draw attention to this tragedy. We are going to continue this program to eradicate the scourge.

Youssou N'dour

He always expected to die young, and I thought that was really a tragedy. It's almost like he had a premonition.

Laura Nygren

. . . the waste even in a fortunate life, the isolation of a life rich in intimacy, cannot but be felt deeply, and is the central feeling of tragedy. And anything of value must accept this because it must not prostitute itself; its strength is to be prepared to waste itself, if it does not get the opportunity.

William Empson

We must create conditions for dialogue. All this must end as soon as possible, because each day that goes by strengthens conditions for confrontations, for problems, and maybe even for tragedy.

Nicolas Sarkozy

We've lost a colleague and many people have lost a friend. This is a tragedy.

Alan Green

If it keeps one tragedy from happening, I'm all for it.

Michael Walsh

You'd have to be dead not to empathize with these people. What a tragedy for people to be without food in the United States of America.

Sandy Greenberg

This whole case, this whole situation with Dena, was a tragedy. We've got the loss of Maggie, who never reached her first birthday. We've got two little girls coping with the loss of their sister and of a loving, caring mother.

Bob Nicholas

The really interesting people we meet in our lives are mixed with comedy and tragedy. What they've created with Sheila, the audience and I have no idea what's going to happen, what she's going to do, or what she's going to say.

Callie Thorne

I think its a tragedy because its hard to find a school that's going to help teen moms.

Fred Harris

Our people are in shock. It's a good thing to come together as a church family and make some sense of a senseless tragedy.

Tim Parish

We wanted to do something to respond to or acknowledge the tragedy. We don't just hand out awards.

Neil Baldwin

We have really been moved by so much tragedy that I said to our guys that we need to do something that can lighten their load momentarily and give the people a fun evening. We hope we can get several thousand to come out and have a good time.

Tom Hicks

We cooperated fully with the FRA in its investigation. We've taken steps to address the agency's findings. The accident was a tragedy, and we certainly extend our deepest sympathy to the family.

Bob Sullivan

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to.

Benjamin E. Mays

Sometimes heroes are born, and sometimes heroes are made. People get to show what they're made of in critical situations. You saw people demonstrate their values in this tragedy.

David Maraniss

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Antonin Artaud

That ended at eleven and we left the Kennedy compound. Nobody at that point, as far as I know, had any knowledge of impending tragedy at all.

Rowland Evans

She is a very good family woman, for the housewife, for my family for my kids. I can't believe it. I cannot believe I lost my wife in this tragedy.

Golam Maola

It's a shame that someone would use a tragedy and spread inaccurate information.

Kathleen Vokes

We want to work out a consistent and fair program to provide customers disaffected by this tragedy with help with their veterinarian bills.

Mark Brinkmann

We want to make sure that no other family has to go through what we went through. Losing a child under any circumstances is a tragedy, but this happened so quickly and without warning -- and now we know the manufacturer could have easily prevented it.

Penny Sweet

While it may be politically expedite to point the finger at the DEP or some 'villain,' such tactics do not help us recover from this tragedy or prepare for the future.

Kevin Cahill

This has been a devastating tragedy not only for Ryan's family, but also for the kids at HMS. I felt we had to do something positive.

Christina Aguirre

This was an incredibly horrible tragedy. A tragedy for the Swift family and a tragedy for the Morgan family. No one knows that better (than Morgan) ... that's why he came forward.

Fern Adelstein

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.

Steve Perry

It's a win-win situation for Saddam and his cronies. He either goes in there and he takes over the proceedings, or he stays out and he turns out to be a martyr, which is an absolute tragedy for the victims.

Cherif Bassiouni

Last Friday was a situation where it was pretty much a victory alone just coming to the game because of the situation and the tragedy that happened. We were flat and made a lot of mental errors, and we didn't play how we play West Brook baseball.

Jacob Walton

I'm sure Norwood is doing the thing they think they need to do from a financial standpoint to keep their company healthy. But from a human nature standpoint, it's a tragedy.

Matt Allen

It was a really great time for her. She was single and dating and beautiful in New York in the '60s ... You don't have to be completely consumed or subsumed by the tragedy.

Wally Amos

This oil shock could cause more damage to the industry than 9/11. That was a one-day tragedy that knocked airline demand and oil prices for six months. This oil price move is more sustained, and could trigger a slowing in consumer demand, the nightmare scenario for most airlines.

Joe Gill

The Trail Blazers organization is committed to assisting the victims of Hurricane Katrina, ... We have friends and family that are victims of this disaster. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who has been impacted by this tragedy.

Steve Patterson

This is a real tragedy, these are good people.

Ivan Golde

Compliance means turnover of the two suspects for trial. It's been almost 10 years since the Pan Am 103 tragedy, this has gone on for far too long.

James Foley

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.

John Walsh

While we are emotionally devastated for our residents, visitors and businesses that Hurricane Katrina wreaked so much havoc and tragedy on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, we will rebuild our lives and are going forward already.

D. Craig Ray

It begins with a little quest and turns into this giant learning experience, what I consider this ongoing tragedy in America -- terror perpetrated on Americans by Americans.

Michael Bolton

I went to one side, I went downstairs, and everybody seemed OK. Then I went to the other side, and it was tragedy. It was just tragic.

Peter Murray

Spring is a time of celebration for families, particularly with proms and graduation around the corner. Unfortunately, it is also a season of dread for parents, because too often these celebrations turn into a time of personal tragedy as a result of underage drinking.

Joe Luppino

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

Kylie Minogue

These children have suffered a most violent trauma. We must help them to be able to forget the tragedy so that they will be witnesses of peace for the future of humanity.

Benedict Xvi

This is a tragedy and would be on any day, but its occurrence on Christmas Day only seems to highlight our sense of loss and makes our ability to comprehend that much more difficult.

David Rohrer

Obviously, this is a tragedy, ... This is one of those things that snaps everybody back into focus and lets you know that we're in a dangerous business.

Chris Daniels

We lost two beautiful people. We sure lost a good pair. It's a real tragedy.

John Flora

Inappropriate development would be a tragedy.

John Opie

I put in work for my neighborhood. Hundreds of bills, measures, budget items, and hearings. I always tried to make it a point to stay late, to always run the longest hearings, to carry nearly the most bills. The tragedy was that of the 18 years I was in Sacramento, 16 years were under Republican governors.

Tom Hayden

I want to assure all Americans and the people of Japan that the National Transportation Safety Board will conduct a thorough investigation to determine how this accident occurred so that another such tragedy will never, hopefully, occur again.

John Hammerschmidt

Not for a second did I think it was going to turn out this way. The bottom line is an innocent athlete was suspended from competition. You could say it's a victory for USADA (U.S. Anti Doping Agency), but I think it's better to say it's a tragedy for all athletes. I'm innocent.

Tyler Hamilton

What we're doing today is announcing in effect a bridging program to help families with cash assistance and services and to help people who've lost their jobs or been displaced from their homes by virtue of this tragedy.

Franklin Thomas

It's never enough, given the magnitude of the tragedy, solidarity is never enough.

Jose Vicente Rangel

It has to be a fully comprehensive public inquiry that will provide us the information we need as to what actually happened, how it happened and why it happened so that we will be better prepared to prevent such tragedy happening again.

Iqbal Sacranie

George Downes: The misery! The exquisite tragedy! The Susan Hayward of it all!

My Best Friend's Wedding

Like all of you, I'm feeling the numbness of this terrible tragedy that befell our beautiful island and its wonderful people.

Sue Kanoho

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Juliette Binoche

Any city that only tries to preserve itself is already dead. The great tragedy would be to embalm New Orleans by simply rebuilding it the way it was.

Mark Wigley

It was critical to the family that something positive come out of this tragedy. They kept him alive for that sole purpose.

Mark Nation

We see this after every major disaster or tragedy. People are putting forward their wish lists and saying it's all connected to the hurricane. We saw it after 9-11. Everyone was saying then that it was national security.

Larry Noble

Everybody's pretty sad around here. He was our captain and he was a good kid and a great personality. It's just a tragedy.

Dan Mullen

I just watched them carry Mr. Ashworth's body away in an ambulance. This tragedy has caused the loss of two men's lives. It was senseless.

Tangee Overly

After years of secularism we're introducing Islam in a new way into the constitution, ... The only other country in which they did this was Iran, and women's rights were thrown out there. It's a tragedy what we're seeing.

Leila Ahmed

The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

Anthony Lewis

I'm just relieved. It really doesn't change anything. They are still gone, but were done with this part of the tragedy.

David Knox

Some people would come out here and say, 'This is a tragedy. Look what it did to these houses,' ... I'd say, 'This is normal' and 'Look at what these houses are doing to the beach.' .

Andrew Coburn

He knows he could never make amends for that tragedy.

Mark Sisti

It's not a blessing, it was a tragedy.

Steve Tasker

We can only hope that the September 11 tragedy never happens again.

David Travis

It was a tragedy to begin with, ... But now we have a homicide-slash-attempted suicide.

John Schultz

There are three types of travelers. One says after a tragedy like the Madrid bombings, 'I'm just going to carry on,' and continues with his or her planned trip. Another says, 'I'll go to Prague instead.' But the third says, 'Because of the bombings I'm going to get a great deal by going to Madrid,' and books a trip there.

Amy Ziff

It's a tragedy for the families, the babies and Ms. Harris. This is a very, very difficult time. This can't be captured in words right now.

Teresa Caffese

We have great fans here in Oklahoma. It's unfortunate that Louisiana had such a tragedy that people don't really have the time to come out and support entertainment.

Rasual Butler

It's an overwhelming tragedy. It's truly an act of nature, but it doesn't make the tragedy any less painful or poignant.

Bill Dalton

I guess I thought of it as an American tragedy, ... It has all the elements -- the success is larger than life, the aspirations are larger than life, and the fall from grace is equally larger than life.

Peter Guralnick

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Stephen Vizinczey

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

John Masefield

The loss of every single child known to ACS is a tragedy that is treated with equal seriousness.

Sharman Stein

It's a tragedy. There were no winners here.

Mario Gallucci

That makes it a double tragedy. They feel there was nothing they could have done.

Robert Harrison

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. ... For the first time in her life, she's happy.

Amy Tan

That is the real tragedy in all this. The insurance people were out here around 7 a.m. (Sunday) morning asking questions.

Scott Sturaughen

The [film] was turned down by thirty-one distributors around the world, including nine in the United States. It was only as a result of the Oscar that this film received worldwide distribution and was seen by millions in countries around the world, many of whom never knew about the great tragedy of the Holocaust.

Arthur Cohn

We're the physical embodiment of part of the tragedy, after it happens, when something goes wrong.

John O'toole

Employers are all too eager to exploit workers. This is no time to make that easier. What a double tragedy it would be to allow the destruction of Hurricane Katrina to depress living standards even further. Taking advantage of a national tragedy to get rid of a protection for workers the corporate backers of the White House have long wanted to remove is nothing less than profiteering.

John J. Sweeney

What happened was a terrible tragedy. You don't honor (the victims) by wrongfully prosecuting these pilots. This is political appeasement of Canadians who are angry.

David Beck

That day was the beginning of another journey. We not only wanted answers as to why this happened, but we had to find a way to cope with this tragedy. As the process unfolded, we began to find victims had few rights.

Lorraine Reed

I am going to recite a prayer that I found to be appropriate for the [ceremony], especially after the tragedy in New Orleans. It's called a Prayer to the Nation.

John Mcmahon

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

Sam Ervin

Could be a new tragedy for French farmers.

Jean Glavany