The Humane Society of the United States has planned and trained for this sort of catastrophe for years, ... We issued warnings asking people to evacuate with their pets since we've seen what happens when animals are left behind. The tragedy is that so many people apparently could not leave in time. The human and animal toll is expected to be enormous.

Wayne Pacelle

It was a horrible tragedy.

Rebecca Rhoades

It's hard to see any silver lining in this type of tragedy. But I think the fact that our warning system went into effect a full 10 hours before this tornado set down -- and that so many thousands of citizens heeded those warnings -- is good. Thank God that took place or our death toll could have been quadrupled.

Fob James

The tragedy to so many human lives caused by Hurricane Katrina has touched all of us.

Larry Scott

Florida stands ready to lend a helping hand to ensure students can carry on with their studies, ... We want these students to have the ability to stay in school and we want their families to have the peace of mind of knowing that their son or daughter will continue their education, regardless of the tragedy that surrounds them now.

John Winn

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

John Mortimer

This was an unbelievable tragedy for the entire family... his grief is immeasurable. There is no greater punishment than that.

David Roth

It's like a 9-11 catastrophe happening everyday worldwide, but this is a tragedy that can be prevented.

Greg Allgood

We are proud to join together with America's Second Harvest to help those dealing with the tragedy of hunger in communities throughout America. The goal of this effort is to help make a difference in the lives of our customers and neighbors in the communities we serve.

Betsy Reithemeyer

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Vaclav Havel

We just want to make sure we're taking care of our families the families of the victims the other families and our employees who are really devastated by this. This was an unbelievable tragedy.

Mike Rasnak

(He was) just a hard-working kid that kept his mouth shut. Sensitive guy. My heart goes out to his whole family. It's just a tragedy. He was a super nice guy. That's all you can say. I don't think anyone would ever have a bad word to say about Jason.

Jon Barry

You've got a push-pull between tragedy and the good that can come out of it for the markets. You've got to rebuild, and you're going to put money and resources into that and create jobs.

Jay Suskind

You can see a photo, know where they are and at least be able to discuss that with your family. You can take precautions. It's being proactive and not waiting until a tragedy appears on the six o'clock news.

Alec Rosen

If anybody knows about tragedy, it's Eastern Europeans.

Neko Case

The social safety net is in place and intact. That's not the problem. The problem is a hurricane just pushed out hundreds of thousands of people, ... You're seeing people trying to pile unrelated agendas on top of this tragedy, which I think is unfortunate.

Paul Ryan

The legal framework is such that I am unable to comment on it at this point. Having said that, with regard to the incident itself, the journalist's death at the Palestine Hotel was a tragedy.

Barry Venable

It's such a shock and such a tragedy that he was taken from us.

Jack Jones

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

William Barclay

I don't know what I could ever possibly say to them, because 'thank you' is not enough... . As far as my husband and I are concerned, they're the heroes. Liam was lucky. He was given a gift by these people who were able to overcome, in a moment, that tragedy that they went through, and make that decision that they made that a lot of people don't.

Lynn Dooley

The major tragedy is that a lot of the deaths were preventable. But we're certainly grateful for the cooperation that we did get.

Jim Pollard

There's good news in tragedy, too, ... I believe in resurrection. These terrible things that have happened might be a doorway to new life.

Patricia Sullivan

Steve now is getting hit with the reality we got hit with when we followed the helicopter down here. We've explained that we're going to help him out. He's good and he's strong. It's a hell of a tragedy, but he's dealing with it.

Reggie King

[Mincberg told IBD that] in the wake of the tragedy ... appeasing the right.

A. Bush

I am deeply saddened by this tragedy. My broken heart goes out to the family involved for the loss of their son.

Mark Taylor

Pathos would make you cry. It would enlist your sentiments. Pathos has those things as its end. They want you to feel emotions. The emotions rule. Tragedy doesn't think of those as its end. It's a big difference.

John Iorio

We see this tragedy not getting better each day, but getting worse each day.

Jim Campbell

It's a terrible tragedy, ... I don't know if my house there is still standing.

Michael Murphy

The team's focus after this past week's tragedy has been exceptional, considering the circumstances. We believe that we are ready to strap it on.

Jay Thomas

What happened to them is a tragedy. So we want to help. That's what you are supposed to do as a citizen.

Avelina Blackman

One death on this border is in fact one death too many. We will do everything humanly possible to bring those responsible for this tragedy to justice.

Johnny Williams

It reminds one of the Book of Job, where one calamity after another is visited on the church of Phoenix, and it's a terrible tragedy.

Joseph Galante

It's kind of like Greek tragedy.

Jim Sheridan

It's unbelievably freakish. It's an absolute tragedy. You're always worried about getting into a bike wreck, about getting hit by a car, but nobody would think about a tree falling on you. That's the last thing you would think of.

Colin Cooper

The fact that Mark Fuhrman is a racist and lied about it on the witness stand does not mean that we haven't proven the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. It would be a tragedy if with such overwhelming evidence, ladies and gentlemen, as we have presented to you, you found the defendant not guilty in spite of all that, because of the racist attitudes of one police officer.

Marcia Clark

Starting with the theme at halftime, 'Rise Up' will focus on the Katrina occurrences. It begins with a slow funeral march to bring the bands onto the field to recognize the loss, followed by a jazz version of 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' signifying rebirth from the tragedy. We close with 'Georgia on my Mind.' There may be a guest artist to perform with the bands.

Jason Bledsoe

This kicks it off with a bang. The public was invited and now they are being told they can't attend, and in the middle of Sunshine Week. It's almost an ironic tragedy that it is occurring.

Adria Harper

In terms of the big cities of this country, New Orleans is clearly one of the cities with the most unique character, ... What's happened goes well beyond the devastation of one city - it's a national tragedy.

Paul Farmer

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Mario Puzo

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jean Cocteau

It would be a tragedy, I believe, to see this kind of a green facility simply bulldozed simply for the purpose of houses. There are a number of projects underway today for green spaces, both within Wake Forest as well as northern Wake County, particularly around (Falls) Lake. So, we see this as another opportunity that shouldn't simply be bulldozed.

Dr Jim Robertson

We have a strategy to train workers to rebuild their communities, ... We must learn from this tragedy and help these workers start over. We must help our fellow Americans build new communities and new lives.

James R. Hoffa (jimmy)

It's an unspeakable tragedy. That [47 million] is higher than the population of some countries. That would be wiping out a number of whole states. The world was appropriately horrified and shocked when we lost about a couple thousand people on Sept. 11.... What we're talking about here is that sort of loss multiplied dramatically.

Randall K. O'bannon

She was a great officer, was gonna be a great officer, had a great career. Just a horrible tragedy.

Debbie Owens

We train one-quarter of the commercial pilots in the United States, so when we heard about this tragedy we knew the odds were good one of pilots would be involved. It turns out maybe some that were not authorized to fly were also pilots.

Bob Ross

With as much tragedy as she had, with both her husbands passing away and her two daughters, that woman's faith never faltered.

Kate Wiatrowski

We want to act as if we can live apart from each other. To me that's the tragedy.

Benigno Aguirre

I think it is a tragedy that a person of the stature of Steven Spielberg, who has made such fantastic films, should have based this film on a book that is a falsehood.

David Kimche

There's nothing more frustrating to family and patients than to not find a match ... and it happens too often. It doesn't take acts of Congress -- it takes one person, sitting in a living room to become a donor. Unfortunately, people often find out about our program when tragedy strikes.

Kevin Meyer

What we are seeing is a blatant effort to exploit a national tragedy to advance long-held oil and gas industry objectives. I hope that a majority of our Republicans in Congress will see this misguided opportunism for what it is and reject it.

David Jenkins

Even after such a tragedy, they (India and Pakistan) have not been able to rise beyond petty politics.

Ghulam Qadir

I know literary figures aren't necessarily an easy sell for mainstream audiences. But he represents something bigger than himself. He's an American triumph and tragedy.

Bennett Miller

But that's not so with John. He was very much at the height of his popularity and his creativity. It's a tragedy.

Buddy Holly

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

Jason Ritter

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating.

Pearl S. Buck

I also have insisted that the report include as much basic data as reasonable and that it be unclassified, since the tragedy that has been Iraq has exacted such a huge cost for so many for so long.

Charles Duelfer

I'm not sure if it's going to be a tragedy or comedy, or how it will play out.

Rep. Gene Pelowski

He said that it was a tragedy that he did not deserve receiving.

Mario Gallucci

Unfortunately, whenever such tragedy strikes, there are those who attempt to take advantage of the situation and its victims ... I want to make sure investors and those who want to help victims of Katrina aren't throwing hard earned money away.

Jesse White

It could have been a tragedy, had the children been still sleeping.

Shari Pulliam

Think of the police officer in the dead of night, working in the rain, and he sees that on someone. Think about what his reaction could be. That's a tragedy in the making.

Anthony Mangione

It's an intensely personal tragedy and trauma.

Peter Likins

Mr. Jackson is continuing to reach out to artists who would like to work with him on this project, which he humbly hopes will make a tremendous difference to all individuals who have been affected by this tragedy.

Raymone Bain

He was trying to smear Mark Taylor and exploit a personal tragedy and we caught him red handed.

Rick Dent

Whatever the criticisms and the after-action report may be about what was right and what was wrong looking back, what would be a horrible tragedy would be to distract ourselves from avoiding further problems because we're spending time talking about problems that have already occurred.

Tim Russert

We sincerely apologize to those guests whose vacations have been impacted by these voyage cancellations, ... This inconvenience ... will provide desperately needed housing for thousands of individuals affected by this tragedy.

Bob Dickinson

I was more nervous to meet them than I was for my Olympic race. I mean, how do you thank somebody for saving your life at the same time they just endured a horrible family tragedy?

Chris Klug

As marine workers, our first and foremost concern is with the passengers we service. We're committed to improved safety to ensure no family faces such a tragedy again.

Jackie Miller

It's just a tragedy, ... When you talk to the teachers and the people who knew him, they say there wasn't a better student who ever went through that school than him.

Frank Welch

We just need to be very careful in our outdoor activities. The slightest cigarette butt can create such a small spark, but such a large fire and a major tragedy for someone.

Michelann Ooten

The tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitzer

Like I say, some stories can be a tragedy, even for the innocent.

Bill Warrick

Tens of thousands lost their mothers and fathers. Thousands were victims of horrific brutality and rape. Many were forced to commit atrocities. The impact of the tragedy simply cannot be overstated.

Carol Bellamy

Every human being is born with a tragedy , and it isn't orginal sin. He is born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Helen Hayes

[(I-Newswire) -] 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 smokers quit each year - 33 million over time?

Michael Fiore

We are deeply shocked by this tragedy. Our sympathy and condolences go out to all those who have been affected.

Brian Bruce

It's a fair outcome to a very difficult trial. The jury was attentive and took their duties very seriously. This is a tragedy for both families.

Jim Jenkins

Why does tragedy happen to good people who are going about doing good for others? ... We live in a world that is not always fair. To suggest it was Scott's time to leave Earth is some kind of cruel joke.

Mark Young

This is the tragedy of the commons because there is no clear winner.

Dan Kammen

You've all seen the terrible tragedy.

Bill Kelly

All the money we raise is going to the victims. We really just wanted to do something to help out the victims of this tragedy. This seemed like the easiest and most effective thing for us to do.

Karen Butler

They're a little malnourished. They seem to be in good health. They're kind of the forgotten casualty of the tragedy.

Larry Stone

To know Bob is to love him. He's always been happy go lucky even through his tragedy. He's a very kind and compassionate and caring man and a sense of humor I love.

Roxy Harshbarger

Now that the actual number appears to be lower, that doesn't make this any less of a tragedy or any less of a horrendous failing of our government. Now it's a tragic revision. So it's not as bad as we thought, so it's OK? Of course it's not.

Jeff Jarvis

I'm sorry for the family's loss of the man that was killed. This whole tragedy may end up ruining two families. We're going to spend as much time together as we can these next few days. (There's) no telling what the case will bring.

Michael Six

It's a terrible tragedy for the people of Indonesia, and our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the victims, and we wish a speedy recovery to those who were injured.

Sean Mccormack

In the face of a tragedy of this scope, we simply have to do everything in our power to offer support, comfort and hope to all the people directly impacted by the hurricane. Our goal is to join forces on every medium to get involved, to volunteer, to contribute in any way we can.

Judy Mcgrath

The real tragedy is that overweight and obesity, and their related chronic diseases, are largely preventable.

Robert Beaglehole

If, by chance, I cannot continue, I would refund the money. I really do love doing the cotillion because I love working with these children. It has meant a lot to me to be able to do something positive after our personal tragedy and now our community's difficulty.

Rebecca Miller

We will get to this bottom of this tragedy. We will find out what happened and we will do everything humanly possible to prevent it from ever happening again.

Tom Madigan

The legacy of bad Corps water projects has ranged from farce to tragedy, with the citizens of New Orleans paying the most recent price. The Feingold-McCain bill would reverse decades of bad practice by the Corps, and Congress should seize this opportunity to address the harsh lessons of Hurricane Katrina.

Rebecca Wodder

I think Katrina made us more aware of the tragedy in New York. One was man-made, one was natural, but they're both a common bond.

Tony Quaglino

All my life, ... I have been preoccupied with the great tragedy of losing family in wars. The pain of losing a parent or a child in (an act of) violence that is purposefully and directly generated by political forces is in a certain way harder to bear than if someone dies in, say, an accident. The death feels more preventable.

Roger Waters

After every large-scale tragedy — 9/11, the tsunami — people start scamming these fundraisers. We're just being proactive.

Tom Liston

I'm very happy to have this year over. We've had a lot of tragedy.

Stephen Richer

The tragedy of this is that this is a situation that repeats itself everyday.

Debbie Hersman

Last year, it was less due to the tsunami tragedy.

Pinky Mukherjee

It is bad that such bandit raids are still possible here (in Russia), ... It's a great tragedy that we are sustaining losses among law enforcement officers and peaceful civilians.

Vladimir Putin

It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've got a fatal injury. It's a horrible tragedy.

Chris Armstrong

It's a great tragedy and a terrible loss, and our condolences go out to his family, especially his children.

Akilah Monifa

What I wanted was to explore various different levels of the comfort-crisis aspect of the nation. It's like Greek tragedy; [Bush and Stewart] are feminine and masculine versions of us. There's humor in it, but I think their transgressions are most important -- are their attempts to organize their pathologies: for George, the psychotic, and for Martha, the neurotic.

Karen Finley

As you look at these powerful images, you see there is something very dignified about this woman. Warhol was very into the elegance rather than the tragedy of Jackie Kennedy. These images are about sorrow, loss and mourning.

Francesco Bonami

It is s a massive amount of people, half the population of Scotland. Can you imagine a tragedy on that scale in the western world. Something like that, just wouldn't happen. We have to dig deep.

Dougray Scott

The quality of the institution was getting better. The scandal will set it back. This is the tragedy.

Dr. Norman Edelman

Dr. Pence is on some kind of mission of his own, and he has knitted together these charges and rumors of different kinds into some kind of whole, and he's trying to use them to ride on the coattails of a horrible tragedy. We shouldn't even have to dignify it by responding.

Dennis Mcgrath

Anyone that would politicize this issue, with the tragedy that's confronting the people of the West, virtually all of them, would be outrageous.

Marc Racicot

It was a tragedy, but we believe we got the best outcome. And we got justice for the family.

John Regan

After all these years of working so hard, to lose her own daughter to domestic violence is just a tragedy that goes beyond measure.

Kit Gruelle

The real story here is what a tragedy this is for Jason's family. The autopsy is incomplete, period, and there is no autopsy report being withheld. The facts are that the family is anxiously awaiting the autopsy and have not made any specific request that the autopsy results not be released.

Richard Howell

This is a very serious and unprecedented national tragedy.

Robert Persaud

This is a terrible tragedy and we will do all that we can to help.

Peter Cordingley

It makes me very angry that in a moment of tragedy, when you're trying to make sure all the humans and animals are all right, that someone would take advantage of you.

Jim Rice

It's hitting us big-time today. People are looking to use this as an opportunity to profit. It's almost beyond comprehension. It's a further tragedy beyond what has already happened.

Phil Zepeda

We really don't have any concern about that. One thing this tragedy taught us is that we all need to be flexible.

Mike Slive

High and mighty king, your grace, and these your nobles here present, may be pleased benignly to bow your ears, to hear the tragedy of a young man, that by right ought to hold in his hand the ball of a kingdom; but by fortune is made himself a ball, tossed from misery to misery, and from place to place.

Perkin Warbeck

This is a tragedy. It's unfortunate. We hope she recovers.

James Barnes

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

Kris Lathan

As the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina become more apparent with each day, many at [UR] have focused on how we can help the storm's survivors and academic institutions along the Gulf Coast, ... This tragedy continues to unfold, but I am heartened by the warm and caring response from so many in our campus community.

Joel Seligman

We have seen an incredible outpouring of energy, support and passion towards the goal of keeping (the temple) alive and vital. When an obstacle presents itself, how do you respond to it- as a tragedy or an opportunity?

Don Stark

We demand a probe by a High Court judge into this tragedy which will reveal the exact number of people killed.

Kalraj Misra

She's not over that tragedy. She has gone on with her life, but there is a big question mark. We didn't talk about it. I hadn't seen her since the accident, so I asked how she was doing in general and she said she was taking one day at a time.

Rick King

This inconvenience to our guests will provide desperately needed housing for thousands of individuals affected by this tragedy.

Bob Dickinson

It's very shocking. We're in Gateway. It's a nice area. You don't expect cops at your front door in the morning. You don't expect tragedy like this.

Sean Torgerson

We are committed not only to stand beside Pakistan at this time of tragedy, but we're committed to working with and standing with Pakistan in the long run.

Anthony Wayne

Sometimes you can be working day to day in a place and you don't see something, where an independent set of eyes with expertise can point out some improvement that will increase safety and reduce the chance of tragedy.

Tom Torlakson

He allowed his spokesman to spend the first 24 hours of the Waco tragedy distancing the president from the calamity, before he stepped forward himself to back the attorney general and accept his own accountability.

David Broder

It would be best for one to admit to this wrongdoing. To give some semblance of closure to the family who has been stricken with this tragedy.

David Greer

For me was the Holocaust not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together - many of them only because they helped Jews.

Simon Wiesenthal

The tragedy for Australia is that our diplomatic relationship with East Timor right now is in a sorry state.

Kevin Rudd

When people are faced with a tragedy of this nature, they can really show their best, and that seems to be what is happening here.

Paul Chambers

That was a big mystery, not having a motive and (the defendants) being family and all. I think that was a tragedy, I think that was a travesty, I think that was hideous. That was the worst thing that you could do to anyone, but you can't just pin that on to somebody just because of what happened.

Mike Johnson

This is the first time such a tragedy has occurred during the history of our company, and we are devastated by this incident. Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the fire.

Princess Cruises

We can empathize with our own law enforcement brothers. I don't think we could ever compare our tragedy to their catastrophe.

Ted Denny

So the tragedy was doubled, ... They're telling ... their school teachers, and he's able to profit from the confusion of the situation and probably was emboldened by that.

William Nash

You know, I couldn't even imagine if I tried to know what they've been through in Louisiana. The emotion at this game should be unbelievable. My heart goes out to all the people for the tragedy they faced. I can't even begin to understand what they went through.

Jesse Mahelona

I´m just so sorry it takes a tragedy so often to bring us together.

Janice Thompson

Certainly there's been concern expressed ... particularly in areas where the sport is just taking root and people aren't as well-versed in its culture and history. But I think also there's a strong willingness to try to use this tragedy to improve our efforts to promote best practices and preserve a positive culture.

Steve Stenersen

They were surprised we even talked to them. It was kind of funny, actually. But we told them it wasn't like that. They were really nice people. We're all from the same area, you know? This tragedy affected everyone. Hopefully, we can help them get through it, one way or another.

Alfred Fincher

It hit all of us like a sledgehammer. The kids were so happy. ... They were wonderful. You just can't imagine going from a beautiful moment to it's all over. It's a tragedy all the way around.

David May

Country music, in particular, is a powerful and unifying force that inspires individuals to action and initiates the process of healing in times of personal tragedy, or national crisis.

Ed Hardy

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Edward Abbey

Traffic stops always have the potential to be dangerous, which is why they always have to be handled extremely carefully. What would make traffic stops safer would be if everyone followed the Move Over Law. That is the easiest way to avoid this kind of tragedy.

Elliot Cohen

Retailers just have a closeness to a great mass of people that no investment banker on Wall Street will ever have, ... In a tragedy like this, nobody wants to be misunderstood as taking advantage of the situation. That would be gouging.

Erik Gordon

This is a city that's had a terrible tragedy, but there's an opportunity to build it back and build it back better. It could become a city that integrates rather than isolates, a city that inspires, a city that celebrates history and diversity and culture and people.

Fred Mcmahon

With keeping the tragedy of 9/11 in mind, it's the nexus between narcotic sales and terrorism -- that's the focus that the international community needs to get at rather than just get after the warlords or get after poppy.

Elizabeth Jones

This is a tragedy, and they do it with a pretext or without it.

Ephraim Sneh

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Edith Hamilton

The fact that she [Reed] took this tragedy and turned it into something positive helped her cope with the tragedy. We see that a lot.

Elaine Berg

We never forget the suffering of those affected by the Benghazi tragedy, and we are pleased that progress has been made over recent days towards the setting up of a fund to help improve support for families.

Emma Udwin

To now come in and say this horrible tragedy occurred and we need to go after some of his settlement money for lost future wages so we can pay back the pension fund -- it makes no sense to me.

Eric Stoltenberg

We have another tragedy -- forgetfulness. 9/11 is being buried underground.

Edie Lutnick

I'm concerned about the people around him, obviously the deceased's extended family, obviously given the tragedy they don't want to be in the limelight.

Edward Hung

We need to continually turn our attention to this issue because it's a tragedy.

Elizabeth Barnett

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

Eric Gill