Top 1200 Unfortunate Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.

Income inequality and government corruption are both unfortunate realities in the United States.

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it.

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

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

Bernie [Ecclestone] has not been shy to say one or two controversial things. The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in public was one Gerald Ratner - and he was gone immediately. But not Bernie! What it tells you is that the demand for live sporting rights, the demand for global or regional events, is so powerful that you brush aside some things because there aren't so many of these events.

I feel so bad for him [Bernie Sanders]. It's really unfortunate that he's been caught in the crossfire here.

The problem with copyright is it only protects that literal work. It doesn't protect the design and the ideas. That's unfortunate.

A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.

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

There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.

Don't be too busy for each other because that is something today that I find to be incredibly unfortunate.

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

It is unfortunate that in a country that has over a billion people, we have just one sport to talk about.

In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

It's unfortunate that all business gets painted as wanting to oppose the environment and slow change.

It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored.

In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is useful and necessary to cope with our everyday environment, but it is not a fundamental feature of reality. It is an abstraction devised by our discriminating and categorising intellect. To believe that our abstract concepts of separate 'things' and 'events' are realities of nature is an illusion.

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.

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

It is unfortunate that nobody has highlighted the work done by actor-turned-politician Sunil Dutt.

Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good.

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

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

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.

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

Unfortunately, in our culture, one person can write a letter to the network, and they shut something down. It's unfortunate.

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.

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

The unfortunate part about trial by fire in fighting is that people punch you in the face.

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people.

The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

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

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

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.

It's unfortunate how people assume so much about your life based on the work you do.

Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not obvious that they are linked. Events in a forest occur with precision in the flow of tree time, like the motions of an endless dance. (p. 12)