Unfortunate Quotes

446 Unfortunate quotes by 371 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our… — Leigh Hunt
It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory… — Adolf Galland
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures,… — Margaret Thatcher
Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily.… — Alcee Hastings
Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved… — Victor Davis Hanson
I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was… — Jesse McCartney
Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes,… — Hideki Tojo
It is one thing to be well-read on a subject; it is quite another to be part of the subject itself. It is an unfortunate… — Lon Milo DuQuette
I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. — William Styron
In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality… — Heather O'Neill
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate. — Harry Stack Sullivan
It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many — Haile Selassie
No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced… — Nathanael West
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than… — James Payn
What patients want is not rocket science, which is really unfortunate because if it were rocket science, we would be doing it. We are great… — Laura Gilpin
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the… — Henry David Thoreau
Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors. — Laozi
Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous. — James Howard Kunstler
Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper… — Alain de Botton

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