A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
People are human. People have failings. It's unfortunate people want to keep piling on people's failings. — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It's an unfortunate situation. After such a great play I felt like I got hit late, no flag, broke my hand. That's… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a… — Alexandra Bracken 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
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war. — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I was just thinking how unfortunate it'd be to be a fat girl named Candy. — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is possible to work across the aisle in Washington, but it's hard. And I think it's been made worse by the… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate -… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so… — David Clennon Copy Share Image
We have a lot of respect and love for Bruschi. But he's gone. That's unfortunate for us, but we have to move… — Rodney Harrison Copy Share Image
There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl.… — Barry Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image