The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“When problems beat upon you like a raging storm, search for the eye. You might not be able to avoid misfortunes, but… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes. — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
Who sacrificed their happiness for others happiness, they are not less than divinity, and that is your misfortunes,, nonentity did not bear… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus." [ The Science of Second-Guessing… — Stephen W. Hawking Copy Share Image
It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse… — J. K. Bharavi 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
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to… — William Cobbett 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
Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“The bad thing about terrible misfortunes, the kind that tear us apart and appear to be unendurable, is that those who suffer… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
The misfortune of others is our misfortune. Our happiness is the happiness of others. To see ourselves in others and feel an… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a… — Kate Forsyth 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
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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