Misfortunes Quote by Emil M. Cioran

Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of manare the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments.

— French National Assembly

We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than…

— Livy

I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I don't feel qualified to talk about my work.

— Buster Keaton

Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them.…

— Danny Boyle

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.

— Geoffrey Boycott

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is…

— Franz Grillparzer

It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from…

— L. Frank Baum

The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence;…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

— Abraham Maslow

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.

— Janelle Monae