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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
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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
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
Secrets have an unfortunate way of spreading far beyond those they were intended for.
— Haley Fisher
'Foo Kyu' is just a very unfortunate cultural coincidence."
"Just think about his poor son, 'Foo Kyu Two.' — John Zakour
"Just think about his poor son, 'Foo Kyu Two.' — John Zakour
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
Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.
— Mary Shelley
O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,
Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure — Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.
— Judge Mills Lane
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
Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)
— George R R Martin
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
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
I'm just helping someone who is unfortunate. Is that a crime?
— Shannon A. Thompson
I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.
— Jayson Blair
-the phrase "lion's share" here means "the biggest part" and has nothing to do with lions or sharing-
— Lemony Snicket
It is unfortunate, that many in positions of leadership, both great and small, have been found guilty of such practices
— Anonymous
IN THE UNFORTUNATE EVENT THAT YOU FIND YOURSELF CORNERED BY A MEMBER OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN, PICK YOUR NOSE.
— Pseudonymous Bosch
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
— Ernest Hemingway,
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
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
— Harry Stack Sullivan
I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.
— Lemony Snicket
There is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
— Victor Hugo
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.
— Victor Hugo
People certainly lead compartmentalized lives and their friends do not know each other. It's unfortunate.
— Patrick Modiano
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
I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.
— Pawel Pawlikowski
Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.
— Francis Of Assisi
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
Velocity!" Sunny shrieked.
I know we have to hurry!" Klaus cried. — Lemony Snicket
I know we have to hurry!" Klaus cried. — Lemony Snicket
It's an unfortunate reality of being a male dancer that it's not really looked upon ... it's not appreciated.
— Sascha Radetsky
I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.
— William Styron
It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.
— Gisele Bundchen
It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.
— Rita Dove
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
Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.
— Sonia Sotomayor
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
— Blaise Pascal
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
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.
— Henry David Thoreau
Yes, Sept 11th was unfortunate
— Geri Halliwell
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
VH1 does its little '80s retro thing once in a while, all of us in our bad hairdos and unfortunate clothes.
— Debbi Peterson
A problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.
— Elizabeth Janeway
...a great man. But...not quite great enough.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.
— Vance Gilbert
Stupidity is an unfortunate consequence of lousy genetic heritage. Ignorance is a choice.
— Rowan Manahan
Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.
— Ivan Panin
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
How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.
— Lawrence Fagg
Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.
— Napoleon Hill
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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
Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.
— John Muir
I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.
— Flea
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
Here lies Joseph II, who was unfortunate in everything that he undertook
— Jackson J. Spielvogel
It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.
— Adolph Green
The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence ...
— Eliza Parsons
My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate.
— Viola Davis
A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.
— Daniel Kehlmann
I'll tell you why I'm Shirley," Count Olaf said. "I'm Shirley because I would like to be called Shirley, and it is impolite not to do so.
— Lemony Snicket
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
Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.
— Walter Dean Myers
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
To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions" -Agatha Swanburne
— Maryrose Wood