I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will… — Amanda Burton Copy Share Image
The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he… — Grover Cleveland 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
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate. — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time?… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“If we let the drama of others’ lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are… — Polybius Copy Share Image
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
