Unfortunate Quotes - Page 3

• Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

  Aristophanes

  Dream, Race, Darkness

  Aristophanes (2012). “The Birds”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Gun, Men

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• Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Destiny, Ridiculous, Ridicule

  James Howard Kunstler (2003). “The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Suicide, Commit

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• One of the most unfortunate things I see when identifying youth players is the girl who is told over the years how great she is. By the time she's a high school freshman, she starts to believe it. By her senior year, she's fizzled out. Then there's her counterpart: the girl waiting in the wings who quietly and with determination decides she's going to make something of herself. Invariably, this humble, hardworking girl is the one who becomes the real player.

  Anson Dorrance

  Girl, Senior, Sports

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• Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

  Jonathan Swift

  Business, Men, Imagination

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “Works”, p.301

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• The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.

  Jack London

  Couple, Men, Glasses

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.212, Lulu.com

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• Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Work, People, Twenties

  "Made to Last". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 4, 1964.

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• I don't read my reviews. Unless I'm unfortunate enough to catch something by accident, which happens, and it's always a bad review. Always, it's amazing. I will be sitting in a café, and I will open a random paper right to the page of the review.... And then you're sucked in and go home and never want to go out again.

  Keira Knightley

  Home, Enough

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• Goodness gracious me,” exclaimed Alexia, “what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars and some opera glasses. What on earth are they called, binocticals, spectaculars?” The earl snorted his amusement and then tried to pretend he hadn't. “How about glassicals?” he suggested, apparently unable to resist a contribution.

  Gail Carriger

  Glasses, Looks, Amusement

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• You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look.

  Jacqueline Wilson

  People, Looks, Way

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• We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.

  Ann Coulter

  Stupid, Silly, Want

  "Columnist Ann Coulter Shocks Cable TV Show, Declaring 'Jews Need to Be Perfected by Becoming Christians'". "The Big Idea" with Donny Deutsch, www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2007.

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• Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a fire." "I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Fire, Promise, Dresses

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.221, Hachette UK

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• One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Imagine, Fortunate

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• It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people.

  Anton Balasingham

  Ocean, Sadness, People

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• It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Political, Politics

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• People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Writing, People, Evil

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.37, Random House

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• That’s an unfortunate place for a birthmark,” I said, more than a little unnerved that it was so similarly positioned to my own scar. Patch casually but noticeably slid his sleeve down over his wrist. “You’d prefer it someplace more private?” “I wouldn’t prefer it anywhere.” I wasn’t sure how this sounded and tried again. “I wouldn’t care if you didn’t have it at all.” I tried a third time. “I don’t care about your birthmark, period.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Care, Littles, Scar

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to.

  Linda Evangelista

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Summer, Children

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• Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

  Steve Irwin

  Lying, Animal, Land

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• They wanna bury me im worried. Im loosin my mind look down the barrel of my nine and my visions blurry. Fallen to pieces am I guilty? I pray to the lord but his laws be unfortunate because im guilty.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Law, Mind

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• Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.

  Lydia M. Child

  Spiritual, Strong, Fall

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 18, 1843.

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• If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Lost, Ifs

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.168, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• We're going to move left and right at the same time.

  Jerry Brown

  Funny, Stupid, Moving

  Jerry Brown (1976). “Thoughts”

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