Unfortunate Quotes - Page 17

• Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet.

  Sam Farr

  Country, Freedom Of Speech, Democracy

  "Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press". Speech in the House of Representatives, November 07, 1997.

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• Some of these guys are so violent that it is hard for witnesses to come forward, and they get involved in repeat criminal activities, so it is unfortunate that they had to die, but it did kind of end the cycle that we were struggling with.

  Ray Nagin

  Struggle, Guy, Criminals

  "Mayor: Crime Part of New Orleans `Brand'". The Associated Press, www.washingtonpost.com. August 10, 2007.

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• The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.

  Herbert Read

  Discipline, Feelings, Progress

  "Collected Essays in Literary Criticism". Book by Herbert Read, 1938.

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• It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.

  Byron White

  Sight, Police, Doubt

  Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1, 1985.

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• When I was dating and the wine list was presented to my male companion, I tried to ignore this unfortunate faux pas. But this practice still goes on...Closing note to all servers and sommeliers: please include women in wine selection. Okay?

  Alpana Singh

  Wine, Practice, Dating

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• Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient their research in a given direction, whether it be in the field of ecology, ethology, sociology, demography (dynamics of populations), genetics (so-called evolutionary genetics), or paleontology. This intrusion of theories has unfortunate results: it deprives observations and experiments of their objectivity, makes them biased, and, moreover, creates false problems.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Knowledge, Objectivity, Agreement

  "Evolution of living organisms: evidence for a new theory of transformation" by Pierre-Paul Grasse, Academic Press, (p. 7), 1977.

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• Overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the early computers, and each generation of computers reflects the needs of the programming languages of the preceding generation.

  Kenneth E. Iverson

  Design, Needs, Generations

  "Notation as a Tool of Thought". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), August 1980.

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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• 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

  Writing, Noise, Apostles

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• He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.

  Jane Porter

  Believe, Character, Rumor

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• The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification.

  Patrick David Wall

  Pain, Fiber, Injury

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• Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.

  Adrien Brody

  Mean, Issues, Village

  Roundtable interview, www.ign.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Yes, Sept 11th was unfortunate

  Geri Halliwell

  Funny

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• It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Men, Talent, United

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• Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Criticism, Authorship

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.81

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• The unfortunate are always egotistical.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Egotistical, Egotism

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

  Plautus

  Envy, Spiteful, Wells

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• Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Friends, Intellectual, Age

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.304

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• By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

  Honore de Balzac

  Self, Resignation

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• A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

  Victor Hugo

  Women, Men, Wretched

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.253, Dawson Bros.

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• The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
  [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,
  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Satisfaction, Fastidious

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• O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Friendship, Disappointment, Tired

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history”, p.116

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• The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Daughter, Children, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.1054, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Doubt, Unfair, Duty

  Blaise Pascal, Auguste Molinier (1905). “The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”

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• half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Procrastination, Frustrated, Half

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.363

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