So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is:… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should,… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of… — Epictetus 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
There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue. — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Copy Share Image
The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the… — Toh Chin Chye Copy Share Image
I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image