“[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in… — Kevin Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which… — John J. Crittenden Copy Share Image
Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and… — Victor Ortiz Copy Share Image
You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public… — Pericles Copy Share Image
I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In effect, Gore is unwittingly characterizing a large segment of the US population as the next 'Willie Horton.' This is unfortunate and… — Ron Barrier Copy Share Image
...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
We have this unfortunate habit in the United States of dividing terrorism into different categories. External, foreign terrorism, which manifests itself overseas… — Malcolm Wrightson Nance Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If the universe is friendly, then it is indeed aware of us and works to help us. So there are no 'unfortunate… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
“… and the Baudelaire orphans climbed aboard, turning the tables of their lives and breaking their unfortunate cycle for the very first time.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that there's such a disconnect between what's happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what… — Sandra Fluke Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image