The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter… — Democritus Copy Share Image
Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few… — John Green Copy Share Image
What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try… — Anonymous 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
In fact, I'm softer than I've ever been, including that unfortunate semester in high school when I simultaneously discovered Krispy Kreme and… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that great and foolish excess can come into prices of common stocks in the aggregate. They are… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I remember at the time of 9/11 that there were women who went out of their way to escort Muslim women to… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Simone’s mother was an unfortunate mistake. Palackas, Simone’s father, was a bound demon who stumbled across her one night while he was… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense,… — Johnny Knoxville Copy Share Image
We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like… — Sherri Saum Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate we were put in the position where the Republicans made it clear they were ready to let everything fall… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language, which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congress McDonough concerning the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Of course I am for stopping violence against women. It is unfortunate that the Senate Democrats are making the current re-authorization of… — Sarah Steelman Copy Share Image
That’s an unfortunate place for a birthmark,” I said, more than a little unnerved that it was so similarly positioned to my… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfortunate. I've always been voluptuous… — Holly Madison Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that Buddhism has changed a lot. When St. Francis of Xavier arrived in Japan, he wrote… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
By saying "blessed are those who mourn", Jesus does not intend to declare an unfortunate and burdensome condition in life to be… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
I am very lustful. I am in this fortunate or unfortunate position being bisexual in that I have twice as many people… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
...We're people and we're different, all of us. And we should be using our differences to bring ourselves closer together. You know?… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
I've seldom met somebody who is merely satisfied working alongside siblings. You typically have a binary outcome. They either are miserable and… — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies… — Brian Lamb Copy Share Image
