Unfortunate Quotes

• Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

  Bertrand Russell

  Exercise, Liberty, Principles

  Bertrand Russell (1960). “Sceptical Essays”

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• Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

  H. G. Wells

  Fate, Journey, Way

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• Life is a series of decisions that cuts off infinite possibilities at every turn. Most people look at that as a sad unfortunate fact of life. Successful people see it as a source of tremendous power.

  Mark Joyner

  Cutting, Successful, People

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• Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Eye, Justice For All, Long

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4411, Library of Alexandria

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• The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

  Democritus

  Inspirational, Men, Wronged

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• It is an unfortunate thing for the Christian to be melancholy. If there is any man in the world that has a right to have a bright, clear face and a flashing eye, it is the man whose sins are forgiven him, who is saved with God's salvation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Eye, Men

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• 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!

  Blaise Pascal

  Spiritual, Believe, Next

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• Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Idiot, Knows

  Walter Dean Myers (2013). “Darius & Twig”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Victory, Would Be

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.106

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• At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

  Daniel Handler

  Believe, Hard Times, Journey

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• The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fastidious

  "Fables (Book II)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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• China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Stupid, Silly

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• I have an unfortunate personality.

  Orson Welles

  Personality

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Inspirational, Kindness, Compassion

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• Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

  Joe Theismann

  Funny, Sports, Football

  "Conrad Smith sees USA challenge in all black and white: it's about the win" by Alexander Bisley, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.

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• and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

  Daniel Handler

  Journey, Events, May

  "Fictional character: Violet Baudelaire". "A Series of Unfortunate Events", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

  Bill Peterson

  Stupid, Men, Thinking

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• It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

  Arthur Balfour

  Truth, Moving, World

  Letter to Mrs Drew, 19 May 1891, in Some Hawarden Letters (1917) ch. 7

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• We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Innocence, Innocent

  "Nymphes de Vaux". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1662.

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• Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

  Marion Barry

  Funny, Country, Crazy

  Quoted in Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 1989

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• Well, I used to look like this when I was young and now I still do.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Stupid, Looks

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• A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Stupid

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

  Daniel Handler

  First Impression, Firsts, Wrong Impression

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Lemony Snicket, Series Of Unfortunate Events, www.ign.com. 1999.

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• The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stupid, World

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• ... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature. The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion - ECSTASY - the ecstasy of Love - the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.

  Walter Russell

  Selfish, Grief, Loss

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