Unhappily Quotes

51 quotes by 45 authors

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. — Thomas Jefferson
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its… — Urbain Le Verrier
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. — Thomas Carlyle
It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. — C. Northcote Parkinson
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else. — Morrie Schwartz
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might… — Edmund White
I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering… — Sidney Altman
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular… — Henry Mayhew
Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . .… — Umberto Eco
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has… — Ambrose Bierce
A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if… — Anne Lamott
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. — George Henry Lewes
We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust,… — Linda Lavin
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and… — Amos Oz
In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place that… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or… — James A. Baldwin
As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent… — Simone Weil
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. — Le Corbusier
You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth,… — Ben Nicholson
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against… — Charles Darwin

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