Unfortunate Quotes
446 quotes by 371 authors
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You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would really…
— John Paul Stevens
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I miss Seattle a lot. It was my first city that I lived in on my own. It was a great city to play for.…
— Kevin Durant
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I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon…
— Sally Mann
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People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning…
— Neil Gaiman
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Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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It is unfortunate that we have to live in a fortress, but we are forced to do so given the high crime rate in the…
— Unknown Author
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But I think I see what these guys' problem is. You know... aside from the lack of a spine and the latent misogyny? As long…
— Unknown Author
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We have a lot of respect and love for Bruschi. But he's gone. That's unfortunate for us, but we have to move on. Just like…
— Rodney Harrison
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Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that…
— Mike Schmidt
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There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an…
— William J. Brennan
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had…
— Simon Schama
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It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
— Hideki Tojo
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What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone…
— Theodor Herzl
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Philippine President Joseph Estrada said he was saddened by the conviction. It's very unfortunate and what happened is saddening, ... If he really is innocent,…
— Joseph Estrada
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I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not…
— Arnold Schoenberg
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It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite…
— Orson Pratt
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Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which we now fear,…
— John J. Crittenden
Who Wrote These Unfortunate Quotes
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