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  • The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. -- Democritus
  • 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
  • I have an unfortunate personality. -- Orson Welles
  • It's a humbling thing being humble. -- Maurice Clarett
  • It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep. -- Aaron Levie
  • The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. -- Jean de La Fontaine
  • China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. -- Charles de Gaulle
  • A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn
  • The internet is a great way to get on the net. -- Bob Dole
  • Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
  • The world is more like it is now then it ever has before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry
  • Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. -- Joe Theismann
  • Well, I used to look like this when I was young and now I still do. -- Yogi Berra
  • Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. -- Bill Peterson
  • and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey. -- Daniel Handler
  • The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective. -- Jon Stewart
  • Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder. -- Emma Thompson
  • In fact, I'm softer than I've ever been, including that unfortunate semester in high school when I simultaneously discovered Krispy Kreme and pot, -- Olivia Wilde
  • The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new. -- Leo Buscaglia
  • You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings. -- Catherine the Great
  • 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
  • At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey. -- Lemony Snicket
  • Unfortunate the country that needs heroes! -- Bertolt Brecht
  • Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way. -- Jesse Jackson
  • Help the Unfortunate Today. They may become your Mentors Tomorrow. -- Yohann Dafeu
  • Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did. -- Milorad PaviÄ?
  • Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak. -- Clarence Day
  • 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
  • Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on your response. -- Dalai Lama
  • 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
  • Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the TV version of the books that is available now on Netflix. As said, I recommend both media for this story. -- Daniel Handler
  • That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore. -- Hirohito
  • It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white. -- Gisele Bundchen
  • It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. -- Arthur Balfour
  • An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • 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
  • This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
  • 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
  • They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us. -- Erich Maria Remarque
  • Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say. -- Thierry Henry
  • It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers. -- John Henrik Clarke
  • Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
  • 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
  • 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
  • While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining activists' access to free online software and services used widely across the Middle East, including browsers, online chat applications, and online storage services. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
  • I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one. -- Victor Ortiz
  • People say Altamont was the 'end of the '60s.' It was unfortunate, but at the time we didn't 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
  • The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing. -- Conor Oberst
  • 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
  • The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen. -- Chris Pine
  • 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. -- Mike Huckabee
  • Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully. -- Jon Katz
  • My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know. -- Macaulay Culkin
  • Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfortunate. I've always been voluptuous with a big butt, but didn't have boobs, so I wanted my body balanced out. My nose was fine in real life, but it didn't photograph well, so I had it tweaked for my line of work. I'm very happy with it. -- Holly Madison
  • Yes, Sept 11th was unfortunate -- Geri Halliwell
  • The unfortunate are always egotistical. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • I'm gay. It's pretty unfortunate. -- Louis Tomlinson
  • We become innocent when we are unfortunate. -- Jean de La Fontaine
  • The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate. -- Josh Billings
  • Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. -- Publilius Syrus
  • The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance. -- Francis of Assisi
  • By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous. -- James Howard Kunstler
  • Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate. -- Walter Dean Myers
  • It's unfortunate that music has become such big business. -- Rosanna Arquette
  • Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors. -- Laozi
  • The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird. -- Simon Blackburn
  • Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit. -- Judge Mills Lane
  • Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit. -- Judge Mills Lane
  • I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. -- William Styron
  • Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. -- Virgil
  • That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final. -- Marie Dressler
  • It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press. -- Cameron van der Burgh
  • One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • I've got whole years of unfortunate clothing in '80s. -- Patrick Wilson
  • A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man. -- Victor Hugo
  • The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off. -- Seneca the Younger
  • It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest. -- Anton Chekhov
  • A heart full of wordsAnd an uncooperative mouthMake an unfortunate pairing -- Kim Holden
  • Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism. -- Andrew Lo
  • As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded. -- Deborah Sampson
  • A heart full of wordsAnd an uncooperative mouthMake an unfortunate pairing" -- Kim Holden
  • She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition. -- Diana Gabaldon
  • Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship. -- Lucan
  • I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent. -- Curtis LeMay
  • Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. -- Democritus
  • I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings -- Jerry Seinfeld
  • We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. -- Luc de Clapiers
  • CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes. -- Helen Keller
  • It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate. -- Seth Green
  • It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide. -- RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
  • It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide. -- RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
  • I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate. -- Rachel Caine
  • It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear. -- Roger Goodell
  • Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with! -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
  • The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity. -- Paul Davies
  • It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits. -- Linda McMahon
  • The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers. -- Babatunde Fashola
  • Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
  • What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty. -- Bob Verdi
  • It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex. -- Birch Bayh
  • It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb. -- Abraham Maslow
  • People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things. -- Joseph Campbell
  • When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate. -- Marguerite de Navarre
  • the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites. -- Phyllis Bottome
  • We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war. -- Michael N. Castle
  • It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded. -- Rita Dove
  • the unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence ... -- Eliza Parsons
  • I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates. -- Juan Cole
  • It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. -- John F. Kennedy
  • I was just thinking how unfortunate it'd be to be a fat girl named Candy. -- Zach Galifianakis
  • It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies. -- Mallory Ortberg
  • A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit. -- Daniel Kehlmann
  • It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore. -- Branford Marsalis
  • I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix. -- Pawel Pawlikowski
  • There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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