Unfortunate Quotes - Page 18

• It is unfortunate we were put in the position where the Republicans made it clear they were ready to let everything fall unless they got these tax cuts.

  Joe Biden

  Fall, Cutting, Republican

  "One-on-one with Joe Biden". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 19, 2010.

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• Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.

  Sarah Silverman

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Children, Women, Hysteria

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• Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity.

  Jan Hunt

  Children, School, Ignorance

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.115, New Society Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Black And White, Interviews, Sometimes

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• We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

  Michael N. Castle

  War, Reality, Long

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• It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

  Rita Dove

  School, Needs, Sometimes

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• At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

  David Duchovny

  Artist, People, Needs

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• If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.

  Shaun White

  Law, Cities, Building

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• I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

  Saul Williams

  Mistake, Rap, Ghetto

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• Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

  Andrew Young

  Wisdom, Views, Looks

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• Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Long, Psychology, Trying

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.105, Spectra

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• They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

  Daniel Handler

  Life, Mean, Understanding

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• Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved too numerous or formidable in arms - even when those enemies were grim Macedonians or Germans. Rather, in times of peace and prosperity there arose an unreal view of the world beyond their borders, one that was the product of insularity brought about by success, and an intellectual arrogance that for some can be the unfortunate byproduct of an enlightened society.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Views, Rome, Intellectual Arrogance

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• I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

  William Styron

  Friends, Thinking, Critics

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Self Esteem, Standing, Pulling

  Harry Stack Sullivan (2003). “The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry”, p.242, Psychology Press

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• It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many

  Haile Selassie

  Responsibility, World, Helping

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