Unfortunate Quotes - Page 15

• The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

  Ernst Zundel

  Unfortunate Things, Canada, Building

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• I'm gay. It's pretty unfortunate.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Gay

  "I just joined a social network that ships Harry styles and Louis Tomlinson" by Emilee Lindner, www.mtv.com. February 26, 2015.

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• You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.

  Jess Weixler

  Trying, Watches, Actors

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• 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

  Men, Trying, He Man

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• There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Men, Prejudice

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• The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Women, Justice, Weakness

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• We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Quarrels

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• Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.

  Saadi

  Wise, Men, Comfort

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.147, Innovations and Information

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• Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

  Ovid

  Believe, Affliction, Spares

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• It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Views, Luck

  The Dalai Lama (2001). “Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists”, p.108, Shambhala

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• The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter.

  Mamata Banerjee

  Police, Atrocities, Matter

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• Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.

  Georges Braque

  Intuition, Painting, Results

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• The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

  Paul Davies

  Names, Humanity, Principles

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• Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.

  Ivan Panin

  Unhappy, Unhappiness, Depends

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• It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract attention to his work, an artist is tempted to descend to sensationalism, whether it is expressed by strong colour, grotesque handling, unusual subject, or sheer size.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Strong, Artist, Competition

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• It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

  Branford Marsalis

  Player, Jazz

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• The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Ocean, Acceptance

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• It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and have gained some simple freedoms that the battle for women's suffrage is over.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Simple, Thinking

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• The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.

  William Eckhardt

  Hurt, Pain, Loss

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• Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.

  Criss Jami

  Impact, Mind, Realizing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.101, Criss Jami

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• Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.

  Criss Jami

  Fighting, People, Joy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.48, Criss Jami

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• People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Unhappiness, Fortunate

  "Modeste Mignon". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1844.

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• Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.

  Bill Vaughan

  India, Ambassadors, Affair

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• It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that.

  David Byrne

  New Orleans, Musical, Together

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions.

  Frances Farmer

  Believe, Evil, Forever

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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