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
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 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
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
..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
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
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
The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Have recourse trustfully to Gods loving kindness and He will not forsake you, for He longs to bestow His graces. Though you… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as… — Wilferd Peterson 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
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
In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really,… — Scott Adams 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
Some days bring misfortunes such as Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible. — Alexandre Dumas 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
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
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to… — Jane Austen 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
Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune. — Barack Obama 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
Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to… — French Proverb Copy Share Image
Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or… — James De Mille Copy Share Image
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at… — Charlotte Charke Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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