Unfortunate Quotes

446 Unfortunate quotes by 371 unique authors

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some… — Steve Irwin
The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love to wear, it's almost… — Mindy Kaling
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. — John F. Kennedy
It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really. — Johnny Knoxville
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole… — Karl Kraus
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
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. — W. Somerset Maugham
The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken. — Nelson Mandela
I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really… — AnnaLynne McCord
We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as… — Anne M. Mulcahy
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the… — Benjamin Netanyahu
I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped… — Sandra Day O'Connor
You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice,… — Conor Oberst
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools. — Blaise Pascal
I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory… — Guy Pearce
In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got… — Leonard Peltier
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate… — Steven Pinker
It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like… — Julia Roberts
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be… — Bertrand Russell
Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. — Sonia Sotomayor

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