Unfortunate Quotes - Page 10

• There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

  Adah Isaacs Menken

  Work, Men, Genius

  Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.80, Broadview Press

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• We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand.

  Eugen Drewermann

  Struggle, Hands, Talking

  Speech at a conference of therapists in Basel, Switzerland, May 21, 1977.

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• The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.

  Eliza Parsons

  Blessed, Heart, Affluence

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• I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Answers, Ask Me, Honestly

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• The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because its kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

  Conor Oberst

  Goodbye, Nice, Thinking

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• [About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.

  I. L. Peretz

  Heart, Ideas, Humanitarian

  Jewish Affairs (Johannesburg), p. 28, June 1952.

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• When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Good Day, Years, Year One

  "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, Novel XL, 1558.

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• He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend.

  Saadi

  Mean, Adversity, Suffering

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.154, Innovations and Information

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• There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Sex, Understanding, Ignorant

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom”, p.31

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• The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Way, Long Way

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• Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. Twenty millions in the temperate zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, full of vigor, industry, inventive genius, educated, and moral; increasing by immigration rapidly, and, above all, free--all free--will form a confederacy of twenty States scarcely inferior in real power to the unfortunate Union of thirty-three States which we had on the first of November.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Real, War, Hands

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mind, Body, Merit

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.174, Booklassic

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• I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

  Booker T. Washington

  Heart, People, Body

  Booker T. Washington (2015). “Up from Slavery: Top Biography”, p.13, 谷月社

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• While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

  David R. Brower

  War, Men, Touching

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• See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks have vanquished and dies happy. He detached himself from himself (s'est détacher de lui-même", Fr.), has identified himself with something greater and more lasting than himself; his homeland ("patrie", Fr.); thus, while dying as an individual, he has the certainty to survive in a larger existence.

  African Spir

  Hurt, Fall, Soldier

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• Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.

  African Spir

  Play, Progress, May

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 57), 1937.

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• It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.

  L. Frank Baum

  Strong, People, Facts

  L. Frank Baum (2008). “7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, Volume 1 of 2. the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy”, p.564, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.

  L. Frank Baum

  Sorry, Two, Liberty

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Oz, the Complete Collection Volume 3 bind-up: The Patchwork Girl of Oz; Tik-Tok of Oz; The Scarecrow of Oz”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Arguing, Problem, Dilemma

  Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

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• Putting Americans at risk for a political reason I think is wrong and I think it's unfortunate.

  George Pataki

  Thinking, Political, Risk

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• the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Unfortunate Things, Rewards, Appetite

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• Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Drama, Eye

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• The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Powerful, Broken Spirit, Proud

  Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) (1809). “The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents”, p.226

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• Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sex, Mean, Data

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• There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.

  Anne Roiphe

  Running, Cat, Divorce

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