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We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving ...
— P.D. James
It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many
— Haile Selassie
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but it has been my unfortunate experience that you can't rely on divine intervention and that fate favors the bad as often as the good. — Terry Hayes
but it has been my unfortunate experience that you can't rely on divine intervention and that fate favors the bad as often as the good. — Terry Hayes
I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others.
— Marianne Williamson
The unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
— Phyllis Bottome
Thinking the loss of a loved one was unfortunate, ill timed, sad, or an accident is to miss the gift.
— Mike Dooley
There is a point at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Miserables.
— Victor Hugo
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De
— Robert Galbraith
Reactionary nostalgia for the proprieties of Victorian England is unfortunate, like a whore looking under the bed for her virginity.
— Bruce Robinson
These eggs are broken. Cracked."
"Yes, ma'am. That happens sometimes."
"Does it?"
"Yes, it's the unfortunate part of being an egg. — Peter Hedges
"Yes, ma'am. That happens sometimes."
"Does it?"
"Yes, it's the unfortunate part of being an egg. — Peter Hedges
Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.
— Mary Shelley
Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.
— Blaise Pascal
They are stupid, aren't they?" Dr. Orwell agreed, as though they were talking about the weather instead of insulting young children.
— Lemony Snicket
The accident," she said finally, "happened because Klaus was hypnotized."
"What your brother does for a hobby is none of my concern," Sir said. — Lemony Snicket
"What your brother does for a hobby is none of my concern," Sir said. — Lemony Snicket
The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter.
— Mamata Banerjee
It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
— Bernard Holland
The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.
— Simon Blackburn
When you have only know someone for a few hours it is difficult to now what they would like to hear.
— Lemony Snicket
Disengaged employees are an unfortunate reality in the workplace, and poor leadership is often to blame.
— W.Chan Kim
It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.
— Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
— Simon Schama
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.
— Barbara Walters
-the phrase "lion's share" here means "the biggest part" and has nothing to do with lions or sharing-
— Lemony Snicket
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
— Luc De Clapiers
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
— Anthony Trollope
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
— George Mikes
There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.
— Adah Isaacs Menken
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.
— Ovid
And I'm supposed to believe that Reagan was a great leader? This is who he chose as the Secretary of Education ...
— William Bennett
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
— Aristotle.
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
— Albert Einstein
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
— Plutarch
How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.
— Manu Joseph
Half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.
— Maria Edgeworth
This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.
— Ariana Grande
If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.
— Napoleon Hill
I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language, which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congress McDonough concerning the Marine Corps ...
— Harry S. Truman
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
— H.G.Wells
We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
— Olivia Newton-John
Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.
— Marguerite De Navarre
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.
— Amish Tripathi
Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."
— Pema Chodron
It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.
— Cameron Van Der Burgh
I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.
— Bill Bradley
Love has a most unfortunate effect on the brain,
— Elizabeth Peters
How unfortunate that sailing was one of the few occupations where a man could be praised for failing, so long as he did it bravely.
— Alexandra Bracken
The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.
— Vance Gilbert
The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence ...
— Eliza Parsons
A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.
— Daniel Kehlmann
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
— Jean De La Fontaine
Am I not as much a doctor as they? I too have my patients; in the first place, theirs, whom they call sick; and then my own, whom I call unfortunate.
— Victor Hugo
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
— G. Gordon Liddy
Truth has a very unfortunate tendency (for the conspirators) to ultimately come out in the open.
— Pradip Baijal
It was an unfortunate coincidence that despite the new television set's perfect rendition of color the first show that came on was all about zebras.
— Anonymous
She has suffered enough horror to realize how fragile happiness is, how eager the universe is to take it away.
— Peadar O'Guilin
It is unfortunate to have views different from the rest of mankind. It secures abuse.
— Daniel Harvey Hill
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
— Karl Kraus
A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.
— Judith Martin
Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.
— Publilius Syrus
...a great man. But...not quite great enough.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
I assume he is the one unfortunate enough to be called Ptolemus.
— Victoria Aveyard
That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.
— Marie Dressler
Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.
— Napoleon Hill
The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.
— Francis Of Assisi
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
— Democritus
The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.
— Jai Rodriguez
The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.
— Jon Stewart
We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter ... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.
— James Joyce
Events that look unfortunate or challenging at the human level are actually taking us to higher levels in the evolution of our soul.
— Santosh Joshi
There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.
— Seneca The Younger
Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.
— Sonia Sotomayor
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
— Harry Stack Sullivan
IN THE UNFORTUNATE EVENT THAT YOU FIND YOURSELF CORNERED BY A MEMBER OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN, PICK YOUR NOSE.
— Pseudonymous Bosch
There is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
— Victor Hugo
Destroy desire completely for the present. For if you desire anything which is not in our power, you must be unfortunate
— Epictetus
It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man.
— Rajneesh
The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that.
— Rooney Mara