Unlucky Quotes

98 quotes by 88 authors

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have… — Samuel Butler
Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with… — Marilyn vos Savant
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like… — Margaret Mead
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. — Duffy Daugherty
Then one day along come a Friday and that a unlucky star day and I playin' round de house and marster Williams come up and… — James Green
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men. — George Eliot
Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's… — Ayn Rand
In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did,… — Bharati Mukherjee
If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues. — Emile M. Cioran
Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something new. They're prepared… — Richard Wiseman
Secrets you were telling everybody but me.. Don't be fooled by the money I'm still just young and unlucky, I'm surprised you couldn't tell — Drake
I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens. — Henry Cavill
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents. — Patti Smith
I must have been born under an unlucky star. You know I have filled out entry blanks for every single drawing in the supermarket for… — Louise Lasser
But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I… — George Washington
There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff,… — Gautama Buddha
Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and… — Julian Barnes
No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes… — Anne Michaels

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