Quotes of Unlucky - somelinesforyou

“ People are lucky and unlucky… according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. ”

- Samuel Butler

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

- Anthony Trollope

“ The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ It's unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder. ”

- Emma Thompson

“ It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing. ”

- Kevin Keegan

“ My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. ”

- Duffy Daugherty

“ What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty. ”

- Bob Verdi

“ I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous. ”

- David Walliams

“ Russians are exiting from communism in a most unfortunate and awkward way. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“ What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed… ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I think it's very unfortunate for Pakistan that yet another government, a democratically-elected government elected by the people has been dismissed. I think it says something about the fact that our democratic institutions haven't worked. ”

- Benazir Bhutto

“ It is unfortunate that there are people who say that capitalism is inherently immoral. I do not view it that way at all. I think that capitalism, more than any other system, gives a person the capability, through economic growth and economic development, to provide more opportunity to people. ”

- Lee R. Raymond

“ Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else. ”

- Don Marquis

“ Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. ”

- Beverly Sills

“ Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. ”

- Hubert H. Humphrey

“ When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account. ”

- Haniel Long

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

- Arthur James Balfour

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

- John F. Kennedy

“ The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. ”

- Democritus

“ Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more… not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say. ”

- Thierry Henry

“ 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. ”

- Barbara Walters

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

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“ Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. ”

- Benjamin Franklin
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