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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been...

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about power

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about life

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought...

Quote by Brett Favre about football, family, thinking, life

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.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about war, civilization, history, world

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Quote by Walter Pater about gifts, attitude, sleep, sun, moment, day

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about idea, mistake, peace, change, world, people

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Quote by Erich Fromm about advice, mother, children, help, love, common sense, sense

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic...

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Quote by Walt Disney about education, children, day

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

Quote by Amedeo Modigliani about country, harmony, beauty, thinking, work

I have touched her lips as only in the strongest and absurd love you can touch. Our bodies were vibrating. Although it took only a moment, for me at least, things had a tragic resonance: I had felt the love, in its purest form, transhuman, its...

Quote by Sorin Vidan about love, heart, existence, voice, absurd, history, rightness, moment, things

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