Unfortunate Quotes - Page 24

• For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.

  Barney Frank

  College, Expression, President

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• It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Humanity

  Speech of at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 06, 1960.

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• The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

  David Brin

  Mistake, Literature, Firsts

  "A Contrarian Perspective on Altruism: The Dangers of First Contact". David Brin's remarks at the conference "Encoding Altruism", September 2002.

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• The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Mash Up, Murder Mysteries, Meditation

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• During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.

  Joshua Foer

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, America, Black

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• Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Friendship, Dear

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• We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Past, Data, Long

  "Facebook has only men on its board of directors" by Carol Hymowitz, www.sfgate.com. February 5, 2012.

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• I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Dream, Blessed, World

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

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• The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love to wear, it's almost a full overlap on the Venn diagram, which is unfortunate for me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Hate, Men, Diagrams

  "Mindy Kaling Loves Rom Coms (And Being The Boss)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 17, 2017.

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• It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Hurt, Kids, Common Sense

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• Iraq is fragile and may fall back into a devastating setting. We're not making the kind of progress in Afghanistan that had been promised. And our esteem around the world has fallen. I can't think of a major country. It's hard to think of a single country that has greater respect and admiration for America today than it did five years ago when Barack Obama became President. And that's a very sad, unfortunate state of affairs.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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

  David Lynch

  Kind, Building, Torn

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview With Christopher Bollen, Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Iraq, Rights

  Address to the U.N. General Assembly, mfa.gov.il. September 23, 2011.

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• I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Teaching, School, Years

  "Sandra Day O’Connor on Judicial Elections, Supreme Court’s New Players". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 13, 2010.

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• You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice, I can't imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know.

  Conor Oberst

  Nice, Ideas, Forever

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• Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.

  Albert Camus

  Book, Reality, Cities

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.50, Vintage

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• It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns

  Marquis de Sade

  Sacrifice, Men, Sacrificing Everything

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

  Milorad Pavić

  Book, Hated, Wretched

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• Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

  Daniel Handler

  Inspirational Life, Live Life, Adversity

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• You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or take notes on a series of events you may have observed that are suspicious, unfortunate, or very dull. Keep your commonplace book in a safe place, such as underneath your bed, or at a nearby dairy.

  Daniel Handler

  Notebook, Thinking, Bed

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• Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job. And if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing. And it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.

  Anna Holmes

  Mom, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness; but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland...In all countries, more or less, paupers may be discovered; but an entire nation of paupers is what was never seen until it was shown in Ireland.

  Gustave de Beaumont

  Country, May, Saws

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• This enthusiasm [for empathy] may be misplaced. Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate. We’re often at our best when we’re smart enough not to rely on it.

  Paul Bloom

  Smart, Empathy, Enthusiasm

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• We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted reaction against the subject is not an unfortunate rebellion against a difficult subject, but a perfectly proper response to a preoccupation with triviality.

  Lynn Steen

  Believe, School, Intellectual

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