No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune.… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon” — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Worry is when you choose from millions of possible thoughts, only the few which deal with a potential misfortune or problem. Once… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to… — Almeida Garrett Copy Share Image
I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders.… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
in the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather… — Shusha Guppy Copy Share Image
... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward… — Walter Anderson Copy Share Image
My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny. — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“The unfortunate thing about public misfortunes is that everyone regards himself as qualified to talk about them.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have… — John Hawley Copy Share Image
I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be… — Socrates Copy Share Image
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