Unfortunate Quotes - Page 25

• People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.

  Grace Slick

  Thinking, People, Half

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• It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.

  Erik Spoelstra

  Team, Nba Championships, Years

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

  Cameron van der Burgh

  Victim, Australian, Presses

  "London 2012: Swimmer hits back at Australian media over 'cheat' story". www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2012.

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• Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're escaping the capitalism and degradation of economic imperialism. We don't call them political refugees; we call them unfortunate people.

  Ian Svenonius

  Escaping, People, Political

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

  Democritus

  Education, Ornaments, Refuge

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 161), 1948.

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• Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Social Values, Law, Accidents

  "Morning Bell: The Judicial Oath vs Sonia Sotomayor" by Conn Carroll, www.dailysignal.com. July 13, 2009.

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• There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Heaven, Vengeance, Cry

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

  Anton Chekhov

  Death, Depressing, Men

  "On the Road". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

  Andrew Lo

  Financial, Modern, Crisis

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• Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

  Bob Woodward

  Editors, Names, Source

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• The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

  Simon Schama

  Depressing, Golf, Decay

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• A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

  Abigail Adams

  Country, People, Liberty

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• In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

  Victor Hugo

  Running, Stars, Men

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• Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

  Jesse Jackson

  Struggle, People, Way

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• It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due to that; not just women's status in the home, but all kinds of laws that are even more discriminating.

  Madeleine Albright

  Home, Law, World

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• The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.

  Vance Gilbert

  Records, Cry, Pot

  Source: www.minor7th.com

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• We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Kings, Suffering, Individual

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• By saying "blessed are those who mourn", Jesus does not intend to declare an unfortunate and burdensome condition in life to be happy. Suffering is not a value in itself, but a reality that Jesus teaches us to live with the correct attitude.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Attitude, Blessed

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• I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

  Arthur Ashe

  Helping Others, Joy, Forgiving

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• I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.

  John Hodgman

  Fun, Nerves, Compulsion

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• There's very few of us who are able to be successful, which is why so many guys out of college can't continue the sport. It's unfortunate because there's just no financial backing. I've been very blessed with sponsors.

  Jonathan Horton

  Sports, Blessed, Successful

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.

  Mary McCarthy

  Work Out, Soul, Mind

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• It's seriously unfortunate when an elected official of the federal government says she's [Michelle Bachmann] going to deliberately break the law. I don't know what kind of signal she thinks that sends, but if she believes that's a good signal, I'm sad for the country. I think that it's deeply, deeply, unfortunate that a member of Congress would, in effect, invite other people who feel that way to say, "Well, I don't have to do it either."

  Kenneth Prewitt

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that they must now do it. In fact there are positive incentives for doing so - universities are offering degrees for writing novels.

  Robert Dessaix

  Writing, Offering, Unfortunate Things

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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