Unfortunate Quotes

446 Unfortunate quotes by 371 unique authors

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. — Joe Theismann
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder. — Emma Thompson
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. — Anthony Trollope
I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is… — David Walliams
I have an unfortunate personality. — Orson Welles
If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some… — Shaun White
I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's… — Saul Williams
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post. — Bob Woodward
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise. — Andrew Young
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement… — Kim Stanley Robinson
They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so. — Daniel Handler
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should… — Saint Augustine
A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will… — Abigail Adams
Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half… — William Saroyan
The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new. — Leo Buscaglia
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities… — Victor Hugo
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man. — Ernest Hemingway
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those… — Albert Camus
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown… — Marquis de Sade
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you… — Daniel Handler
Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did. — Milorad PaviÄ‡
Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible… — Daniel Handler
You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or… — Daniel Handler

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