Unfortunate Quotes - Page 7

• The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

  Ernst Zundel

  Unfortunate Things, Canada, Building

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• I'm gay. It's pretty unfortunate.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Gay

  "I just joined a social network that ships Harry styles and Louis Tomlinson" by Emilee Lindner, www.mtv.com. February 26, 2015.

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• You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.

  Jess Weixler

  Trying, Watches, Actors

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• There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Trying, He Man

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• There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Men, Prejudice

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• The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Women, Justice, Weakness

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• We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Quarrels

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• Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.

  Saadi

  Wise, Men, Comfort

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.147, Innovations and Information

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• Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

  Ovid

  Believe, Affliction, Spares

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• It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Children, Mean

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.135, Psychology Press

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• if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

  Agnes Repplier

  Lying, Drinking, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static answers puts one at a disadvantage. Empower yourself by searching for the right question as if it were a buried treasure and treasures will find you.

  John Fairclough

  Empowering, Needs, Answers

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• It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies.

  Danny DeVito

  Country, Racist, Tendencies

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• There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to do the work of parenting in the isolation of their own homes - and not only that, this trend has overlapped with the other trend of much deeper parent involvement in raising kids. That you also represent trend No. 3, more people raising kids solo, has only exacerbated a close-to-no-win situation.

  Carolyn Hax

  Home, Kids, Winning

  "Carolyn Hax Live: With the usual apologies to wolves". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 8, 2016.

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• So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have bookended both those years in a very unfortunate way. But at a bigger picture since, the impression in Pakistan is that things are actually improving on the terrorism front quite dramatically.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Years, Pakistan, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it.

  Gemma Files

  Writing, Views, Poison

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the extraordinarily brilliant exponents of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Middle Ages.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophical, Age, Brilliant

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I've seldom met somebody who is merely satisfied working alongside siblings. You typically have a binary outcome. They either are miserable and everyone starts to hate each other, which is an unfortunate outcome that we see too often, or it is really incredible, and there's tremendous energy and mutual respect, and the parties work really well together. I've found that the middle road typically doesn't happen.

  Ivanka Trump

  Hate, Sibling, Party

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• I've got whole years of unfortunate clothing in '80s.

  Patrick Wilson

  Years, Clothings, Whole

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to violate animal life at the first opportunity.

  Andrew Linzey

  Animal, Opportunity, Hunting

  Andrew Linzey (1976). “Animal rights: a Christian assessment of man's treatment of animals”, SCM Press

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• It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he put it for Jews to enslave people and their descendants and to African Americans.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  People, African American, Pluralism

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."

  Pema Chodron

  Wise, Helping, Loser

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• Large factory trawlers indiscriminately scrape and haul up everything from the ocean floor, along with everyone unfortunate enough to get caught in the nets. Roughly one-third of what is dragged in is not profitable fish, but other sea animals, including turtles, whales, dolphins, seals, and seabirds. These beings are referred to by the fishing industry as "by-catch." Severely traumatized and wounded, these animals are subsequently thrown back into the ocean, dead or dying.

  Sharon Gannon

  Ocean, Animal, Turtles

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• In effect, Gore is unwittingly characterizing a large segment of the US population as the next 'Willie Horton.' This is unfortunate and counterproductive to any dialogue between those who 'believe' and those who don't.

  Ron Barrier

  Believe, Scary, Population

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