A Quote by Ferdinand Marcos
Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.
I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune. I wanted to write a pretty standard romantic comedy where nobody dies, nobody gets hurt, nobody gets sick.
The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.
What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.
Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.
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