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Unhappily Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- 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…
- People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes…
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- The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant… — Thomas Jefferson
- This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Unknown Author
- All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for… — 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… — Edmund White
- I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a… — Sidney Altman
- There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the… — 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… — Ambrose Bierce
- A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you… — Anne Lamott
- It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the… — George Henry Lewes