Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
VH1 does its little '80s retro thing once in a while, all of us in our bad hairdos and unfortunate clothes. — Debbi Peterson Copy Share Image
Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser." — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is. — Chaim Potok 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
I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The so-called co-efficient of heritability, which I regard as one of those unfortunate short-cuts, which have often emerged in biometry for lack… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous… — Willy Russell Copy Share Image
Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think… — David Caruso Copy Share Image
Curiosity is a self-driven motivation to explore and to learn. Learning is like... you know, you have to take your medicine. And… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none… — Robert Pozen Copy Share Image
Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned… — Jan Hunt Copy Share Image
“Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Consequently, pictures are aimed at certain audiences, whether it be a teen comedy or an action movie or whatever. It's unfortunate, because… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image