Unfortunate Quotes - page 13

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again. (Jason Statham)
The false report that measuring one of the photons immediately affects the other leads to all sorts of unfortunate conclusions. View quote
Murray Gell-Mann
Again he was thrown upon his resources; which have always appeared to me the very worst things on which an unfortunate individual can be thrown in the way of amusement. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The mystics themselves do not seem to have believed their physical and mental sufferings to be a sign of grace, but it is unfortunate that it is precisely physical manifestations which appeal most to the religiosity of the mob. View quote
W. H. Auden
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship. View quote
Lucan
He (Salman) may not be media savvy, he may be involved in some unfortunate incidents, but Salman at heart is one of the nicest guys I know in the industry, and even outside it. He is constantly being misrepresented in the media and being made a target just because he happens to be a celebrity. View quote
Preity Zinta
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
It is disappointing to hear senior British politicians lending their voices to criticisms more frequently heard in the popular press, often based on a misunderstanding of the court's role and history, and of the legal issues at stake. It is particularly unfortunate that a single judgment of the court on a case relating to UK prisoners' voting rights, which was delivered in 2005 and has still not been implemented, has been used as the springboard for a sustained attack on the court and has led to repeated calls for the granting of powers of Parliament to override judgments of the court against the UK, and even for the withdrawal of the UK from the convention. View quote
Nicolas Bratza
I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate. View quote
Bill James
Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate. (David Lynch)
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange. View quote
Neil Gaiman
We must face the unfortunate fact that we are moved to the acceptance of beliefs by factors that are wholly irrelevant to their truth. View quote
Susan Stebbing
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes. View quote
Steven Pinker
How unfortunate a country is where the marks of generation are ignominious and those of annihilation are honorable! And you call that member one of the 'shameful parts', as though anything were more glorious than to give life and anything more infamous than to take it away. View quote
Cyrano de Bergerac
I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible. View quote
Guy Pearce
The unfortunate condition of the persons, whose labour in part I employed, has been the only unavoidable subject of regret. View quote
George Washington
For all of ignorant people of a nation, even if their body is somehow strong, somehow grand, even then they can only make meaningless displays [of this "strength"]. [As for] the multitude of constituents and observers, however many may die from [this] sickness, this is [still] not to be considered as unfortunate. View quote
Lu Xun
It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it. View quote
Barbara Walters
I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world. View quote
Christine de Pizan
I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. View quote
William Styron
Be generous! Give to those whom you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate; yes - give especially to those to whom you don't want to give. View quote
W. Clement Stone