Unlucky Quotes - Page 3

• Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and those who haven't. Later still - at least, if we are lucky (or, on the other hand, unlucky) - it divides into those who have endured grief, and those who haven't. These divisions are absolute; they are tropics we cross.

  Julian Barnes

  Sex, Grief, Hands

  Julian Barnes (2013). “Levels of Life”, p.68, Random House

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• This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Education, Children, Learning

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

  Solon

  Men, Desire, Riding

  "The Histories Bk. 1". Book by Herodotus, trans. Robin Waterfield, ch. 32, pp. 15-16.,

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• Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

  Robert Boyle

  Stones, Firsts, Philosopher

  Robert Boyle (1772). “The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...”, p.36

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• Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Baby, Two, Premature

  Interview with Nick Duerden, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Secrets you were telling everybody but me.. Don't be fooled by the money I'm still just young and unlucky, I'm surprised you couldn't tell

  Drake

  Broken Heart, Money, Rapper

  Song: Karaoke, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.

  Confucius

  Omen, Nations

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.281

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• No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

  Anne Michaels

  Love, Skulls, Long

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.10, A&C Black

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• Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Parent, Fool, Danger

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• I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

  Andrew Bogut

  Cat, Two, Black

  "Bogut downplays injury concerns, relishes fresh start with Warriors". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Oh, boy. I'm still in touch with about 90 percent of my exes. They would describe me as being unlucky in love.

  Nathan Fillion

  Boys, Describe Me, Stills

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• If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Association

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• Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have not invoked God's Compassion and Blessings? Is it because God has accepted this failure as an experience He wanted to have in our life? Is it because God has granted this failure to us? Is it because God has willed that we should lose? No! not it is for a different reason that we experience failure. It is for the strengthening of our consciousness that, at times, God grants us defeat.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Failure, Compassion, Blessing

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• If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.

  Martha Beck

  Uncomfortable Feeling, People, Decision

  "Learn how to time success and avoid failure" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2010.

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• Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?

  Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

  Clever, Men, Shoes

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• Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.

  Anand Neelakantan

  Men, Thinking, Selfishness

  Anand Neelakantan (2012). “ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished”, p.37, LEADSTART PUBLISHING PVT LTD

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• Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.

  Caprice Crane

  Believe, Luck, Four

  Caprice Crane (2011). “With a Little Luck: A Novel”, p.4, Bantam

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• The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.

  Markus Zusak

  People, Important, Enough

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.375, Random House

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• We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Water, Tears, Jogging

  "Fictional character: He Zhiwu, Cop 223". "Chungking Express", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

  Walter Pater

  Book, Fall, Independent

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.96, Cambridge University Press

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• He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.

  Tennessee Williams

  Girl, Boys, Discovery

  Tennessee Williams (1953). “A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts”, p.67, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Why aren't crazy people content to take over, like, one town? It always has to be the whole word. They can't just control maybe twenty people. The have to control everyone. The can't just be stinking rich. The can't just do genetic experiments on a couple unlucky few. They have to put something in the water. In the air. To get everyone. I was tired of all of it.

  James Patterson

  Couple, Crazy, Tired

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• And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

  Gavin Douglas

  Time, Spring, Ambition

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• Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Country, Moving, Love You

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