Unfortunate Quotes

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

As Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.

It's unfortunate that women feel they have to resort to something sensational... All the videos I see now are sexy and raunchy. What's the point? I don't get it?

I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on your response.

A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'

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

In fact, I'm softer than I've ever been, including that unfortunate semester in high school when I simultaneously discovered Krispy Kreme and pot.

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

There's a whole chapter about my unfortunate manscaping accident. I was so focused on, "I've got to look this certain way and do this to be ready for this." So I missed out on a lot.

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

I think you have to be fair with one another. It's unfortunate when someone does something that's not authentic, or not there for any reason other than to draw attention.

The unfortunate part is there's not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

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.

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic.

I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.

It's really unfortunate that instead of focusing on the really important issues in our world, Donald Trump chooses to make personal attacks on people.

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

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

[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is an unfortunate mistake of the devil. But if it repents, it will be saved!

If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

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

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

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

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.

Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.

It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think people were rooting against the movies. That was really unfortunate.

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.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.