Top 1200 Unfortunate Circumstances Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

I think it's been unfortunate, but it's happened, that since the Great Recession, the gains have all gone to the top. And we need to reverse that.

Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016.

The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that.

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an event may happen or fail. With the degree of information we possess concerning the circumstances of an event, the reason we have to think that it will occur, or, to use a single term, our expectation of it will vary. Probability is the expectation founded upon partial knowledge.

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.

Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)

In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

In high school, from age 15 to 18, I was saddled with the unfortunate nickname of 'Junk,' which doesn't do a lot for one's self-esteem.

It's just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even thinking about building walls.

I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.

It's unfortunate when I see brands spending a lot of time and money on creating online content that hardly anyone watches.

It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.

It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many

If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.

One of Satan's sharpest tools is alcohol, for it blinds and deafens, numbs and manacles, impoverishes and maims, and kills unfortunate victims.

The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.

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.

This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.

It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.

Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."

Year after year after year, people write books about managing innovation or about leadership, for example, without ever going through the pain of saying, "This kind of leadership will cause this result in these circumstances and a very different result in those circumstances." This is academic malpractice of the worst kind.

This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).

It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.

A moral stand by the sports industry is what finally settled the long, unfortunate debate over Mississippi's state flag.

As a Republican, I believe it's unfortunate that a perception still exists in the minds of some Americans that the GOP condones racism.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

It is unfortunate that there is not a government in Iraq that has been able to unify the Shiites and the Sunnis sufficiently. They are not currently fighting together.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'

Your circumstances will only change when you begin to question them. Change begins with a question. Revolutions start with a question. Revolutionize your life.. Do not conform to the emptiness, the sadness, breakdown, failure, weakness...instead REVOLUTIONIZE your life & CONQUER your circumstances.

One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

It's unfortunate that women feel they have to resort to something sensational... All the videos I see now are sexy and raunchy. What's the point? I don't get it?