Unfortunate Quotes

446 Unfortunate quotes by 371 unique authors

This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed… — Wasif Ali Wasif
The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was… — Laurie Lee
If you are never satisfied with what you write, that is a good sign. It means that your vision can see so far that it's… — Brenda Ueland
Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes. — Helen Keller
I am very lustful. I am in this fortunate or unfortunate position being bisexual in that I have twice as many people to lust over.… — Brian Molko
In software, consultants sometimes tell you to buy into certain software-development methods to the exclusion of other methods. That’s unfortunate because if you buy into… — Steve McConnell
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty,… — Pope Clement VIII
I think it would be unfortunate if people in Saudi Arabia or some parts of the world influenced what we speak about in Denmark. [But]… — Flemming Rose
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. — Malcolm Forbes
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We… — Benjamin Franklin
A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable. — Judith Martin
I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is… — Dawn French
Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means… — W. Somerset Maugham
I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy… — Juan Cole
Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God. — Max Lucado
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species. — Ian Somerhalder
Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order. — Napoleon Hill
One of Satan's sharpest tools is alcohol, for it blinds and deafens, numbs and manacles, impoverishes and maims, and kills unfortunate victims. — Spencer W. Kimball
The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the… — Lance Armstrong
Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where… — Marcus Aurelius
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy… — Maureen Corrigan
I have spent my entire life helping millions of children across the world. I would never harm a child. It is unfortunate that some individuals… — Michael Jackson
As Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of… — Maryrose Wood
The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And… — Manu Joseph
All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this… — Garry Kasparov

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