Kathleen Dowling Singh Quotes
Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
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What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
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I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.
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People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.
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The tragedy unfolding in Zimbabwe is driven by one man's ruthless campaign to hang on to power whatever the cost to others in the process.
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The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.
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The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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We see and realise that the political situation in the United States is influenced by those who have lost the elections but refuse to accept their defeat, and who continue to use the anti-Russia card and various allegations most actively in the political infighting. This is why we are in no hurry, we are ready to wait, yet we strongly hope that Russian-US relations will become normal again sometime in the future.
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A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.
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Self-love is the starting point for everything.
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Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.
