Quotes with unfortunate

  • Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
  • It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
  • Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
  • Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
  • Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
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  • Bertrand Russell 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
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Aeschylus Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Benjamin Franklin 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
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bob Ney Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill James Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Bob Woodward Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Boethius For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Barry Eichengreen For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Alcee Hastings Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Barbara Walters It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Birch Bayh It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Andrew Young Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • F. L. Lucan Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
    F. L. Lucan
    Roman epic poet (39 - 65)
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