Unfortunate Quotes - Page 6

• Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Tendencies

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• You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Atheist, Believe, Years

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• The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Death, Men

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lunatic Asylums, World, Charm

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2070, Simon and Schuster

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• I can trust you, Jessie, but you're clearly not well enough to go. Which is unfortunate, since Aloysius always had a weakness for a pretty face." "Even more reason why I should go," said Will.

  Cassandra Clare

  Weakness, Faces, Reason Why

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.528, Simon and Schuster

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• Dumbledore paused, and although his voice remained light and calm, and he gave no obvious sign of anger, Harry felt a kind of chill emanating from him and noticed that the Dursleys drew very slightly closer together. “You did not do as I asked. You have never treated Harry as a son. He has known nothing but neglect and often cruelty at your hands. The best that can be said is that he has at least escaped the appalling damage you have inflicted upon the unfortunate boy sitting between you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Son, Boys, Hands

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.51, Pottermore

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• Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves.

  Jane Austen

  Running, Mad, Moments

  "Love and Friendship". Story by Jane Austen, 1790.

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• It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.

  Ally Carter

  Feet, Stories, Shooting

  Ally Carter (2012). “Heist Society: Uncommon Criminals”, p.131, Hachette UK

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• Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.

  John Green

  Cancer, Mean, Blind

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.48, Penguin

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• I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Feelings, Position

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• I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.

  Rachel Caine

  Names, Orange, Hue

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood”, p.124, Allison & Busby

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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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• People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Fear, Men

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• It is unfortunate that we have to live in a fortress, but we are forced to do so given the high crime rate in the country. I travel with two bodyguards all the time and there is substantial cost involved

  Vivian Reddy

  Soccer, Country, Two

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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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• 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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• 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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• Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such hindrances to the progress of science should exist. I cannot help thinking it a most unfortunate thing that men who as experimentalists & philosophers are the most fitted to advance the general cause of science & knowledge should by promulgation of their own theoretical views under the form of nomenclature, notation, or scale, actually retard its progress.

  Michael Faraday

  Regret, Science, Men

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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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• O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved by the merits of Thy sacred passion, thou didst see at the same time the great multitude of reprobates who would be damned for their sins, and Thou didst complain bitterly of those hopeless, lost, and unfortunate sinners.

  Brigit of Kildare

  Jesus, Sadness, Passion

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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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• 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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• 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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