If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean… — Plato Copy Share Image
I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper. — Doseone Copy Share Image
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question. — Henrietta Szold 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
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us… — Ba Jin 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
Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image