Top 1200 Unfortunate Circumstances Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.'

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

I think it's unfortunate that we don't go into the non-churchy places to be what I believe Jesus was.

I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance. Holding on to a vision invokes the circumstances by which the vision is achieved. Vision is content; material circumstances mere form.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.

All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.

I was just thinking how unfortunate it'd be to be a fat girl named Candy.

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.

When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they're feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.

I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

The unfortunate reality is the alt-right has captured white people's imagination.

I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings

When I got released in 2013, I just felt that was an unfortunate situation for me.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.

What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter.

Coming from the theater, you know what your given circumstances are every night and who your character is. You're reenacting this one moment of their lives over and over, so you get really good at figuring out how to navigate it. TV was a huge adjustment for me because the script changes every episode, and you have a different set of circumstances.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

One reason there are so many short-lived management fads is that their prescriptions were derived and advocated in precisely this way. So managers read about a fad and try it, find that it doesn't work, abandon the effort, and move on to the next thing. In reality, it is usually the case that the faddish prescription was indeed sound advice in certain circumstances, but actually was poor advice in other circumstances.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable. In some ways, we have similarities, but in other ways, we're completely different. It's hard to say because I'm an actor living in a world where we're all pretty privileged, and this guy is fighting for his life. They're very different circumstances. Within those circumstances, there are probably ways that we react to certain situations that are similar.

It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.

We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

It's an unfortunate reality of being a male dancer that it's not really looked upon... it's not appreciated.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.

When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

Circumstances do not determine state of being; state of being determines circumstances.

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

I believe tobacco is a slow poison and it's unfortunate that a lot of youngsters are hooked to it.

A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

If one cannot use technology then it is really unfortunate.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.

It's so unfortunate because people have become so comfortable being mean.

Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

The court was unable to rule on all circumstances in which nuclear weapons might be used, and it said in view of the problems, the risks posed by nuclear weapons, and in view of the lack of certainty of the law in all circumstances, the best course is fulfilling the obligation of good faith negotiations of nuclear disarmament contained in the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

The unfortunate thing about this planet is that we are in no shortage of ignorance.

It is very unfortunate that unless you are a star, nobody considers you in B-Town.

She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.

It is unfortunate whenever someone tries to bring politics into sport.

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.