Unfortunate Quotes

446 Unfortunate quotes by 371 unique authors

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
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

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