Top 1200 Unfortunate Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

From the social cognitive perspective, it is mainly perceived inefficacy to cope with potentially aversive events that makes them fearsome. To the extent that people believe they can prevent, terminate, or lessen the severity of aversive events, they have little reason to be perturbed by them. But if they believe they are unable to manage threats safely, they have much cause for apprehension.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

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

The greatest events that have been spoken of by all the Holy Prophets will come along so naturally as the consequences of certain causes, that unless our eyes are enlightened by the Spirit of God, and the spirit of revelation rests upon us, we will fail to see that these are the events predicted by the Holy Prophets.

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

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

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

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

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

The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.

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

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

Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.

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

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph.

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

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.

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

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

Pakistan doesn't value its artistes. I will get trolled for what I have said, but that is the reality. It is unfortunate.

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

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

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

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

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

Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Singles have goals, responsibilities, deadlines, events, and friends that occupy their time, as well they should. Nonetheless, before any goals are achieved, responsibilities are fulfilled, deadlines are met, events are attended or friends are visited, God's purpose should be accomplished.

Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday events--the mailman at the door with a package to open...all of which need adult interpretation. They are real events of interest and concern to babies and young children....By contrast, infant education is artificial and out of context.

In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.

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.

A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.

I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively.

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

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

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

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

Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.

It's unfortunate that Facebook, as soon as I come and speak out, they ban me from their platforms.

So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ideally you want every relationship to work, if it happens it's great, if it doesn't it is unfortunate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I grew up in Hollywood. My father always told me that this is a job. These events are filled with people you work with; it's not like glam-schmooze time. That's why I only like events that celebrate people I have a connection to; otherwise, it's someone else's night, and I don't need to show up in a dress to try and steal their attention.

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