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The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it. -- George Eliot
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real. -- John Ashbery
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.. -- Bernhard Schlink
The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means. -- Tom Stoppard
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. -- Tom Stoppard
We Brazilians, happily or unhappily, leave a lot to the last minute. -- Romario
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means. -- Oscar Wilde
love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins. -- David Levithan
Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. -- Mitch Albom
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else. -- Morrie Schwartz
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily. -- Jules Verne
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. -- Charles Lamb
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. -- Thomas Pynchon
It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. -- Alexander Haig
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. -- Le Corbusier
I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god. -- Marcus Brigstocke
My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. -- Dorothy Parker
Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun." "Fun" she said unhappily. "Blue elephants." "Blue elephants." "Kiss me you fool." "You fool. -- Rick Riordan
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. -- Thomas Carlyle
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. -- George Henry Lewes
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. -- Thomas Jefferson
My one true love. My deformed or mutilated or diseased prince charming. My unhappily ever after. My hideous future. The monstrous rest of my life. -- Chuck Palahniuk
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures -- Henry Mayhew
We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God: -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded -- Jawaharlal Nehru
You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. -- Ben Nicholson
While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness. -- Bertrand Russell
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! -- Jules Verne
I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. -- Sidney Altman
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed. -- Charles Darwin
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together -- Edmund White
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together. -- Edmund White
It is not clear that married people are, on average, happier than those who never married, because unhappily married people are the least happy group of all and they pull down the average. -- Jonathan Haidt
We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about. -- Linda Lavin

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