Unfortunate famous quotes
06-13-2025
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
-- Aaron Levie -
Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
-- Alain de Botton -
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 unfortunate are always egotistical.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.
-- Branford Marsalis -
It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.
-- Cameron van der Burgh -
No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.
-- Chaim Potok -
I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
-- Curtis LeMay -
I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.
-- David Walliams -
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
-- Democritus -
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
-- Democritus -
She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
-- Emma Thompson -
The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.
-- Ernst Zundel -
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
-- G. Gordon Liddy -
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
-- Harry Stack Sullivan -
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.
-- Ivan Panin -
I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.
-- Ivan Turgenev -
I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.
-- Jason Statham -
We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings
-- Jerry Seinfeld -
People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.
-- Joseph Campbell -
In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.
-- Leonard Peltier -
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
-- Luc de Clapiers -
That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.
-- Marie Dressler -
Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.
-- Milorad Pavić -
It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.
-- Muhammad al-Bukhari -
Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.
-- Publilius Syrus -
It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.
-- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -
The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.
-- Simon Blackburn -
A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.
-- Tom Colicchio -
Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.
-- Walter Dean Myers -
I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.
-- William Styron -
I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.
-- Pawel Pawlikowski -
[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again.
-- Roger Ross Williams -
It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.
-- Roger Goodell -
It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.
-- Rosanna Arquette -
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 -
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
-- Virgil
