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Quotes About Unlucky

The lamp tipped over, nailing Kane in the head. Sabin shook his head. The man was a walking disaster Literally. Whenever Kane stepped into a room, things went to hell pretty quickly. Sabin expected the ceiling to cave in any moment. And yea, it had happened before.
~ Gena Showalter
O Miss Bailey!Unfortunate Miss Bailey!
~ George Colman (the Younger)
The establishment of the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1867 had brought an interlude of peace and prosperity, and a lifting of restrictions against Jews, to a country best known, according to Klári von Neumann, "for the gallantry of its men, the beauty of its women, and last, but not least, for its hopelessly unhappy and unlucky history.
~ George Dyson
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
If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.
~ Decimius Magnus Ausonius
The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.
~ Casey Stengel
I prefer to remain a skeptic. People frequently misinterpret my opinion. I never said that every rich man is an idiot and every unsuccessful person unlucky, only that in absence of much additional information it is preferable to reserve one's judgment. It is safer. Ten • LOSER TAKES ALL—ON THE NONLINEARITIES OF LIFE The nonlinear viciousness of life.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What Cleaver never realized, even at the end of his life, is that chaos is as compelling a cause as any other. It can even become a religion to those unlucky enough to be baptized into it, those whose consolation can only be found in its foul waters.
~ Neal Shusterman
It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
~ Charles Bukowski
Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from it - friendship, a get-out, or a haven - when, in fact, it is a trap.
~ Carol Lee
But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
~ George Washington
In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I have long believed that the ghosts of the past still linger here. They are stark reminders of the trauma and terror experienced by the unlucky patrons who had tickets to an afternoon matinee that day – and a chilling remembrance of a tragedy that should never be forgotten.
~ Troy Taylor
Bad Luck Card Cause you don't love me Is awful, awful hard. Gypsy done showed me Ma bad luck card. There ain't no good left In this world for me. Gypsy done tole me, -- Unlucky as can be. I don't know what Po' weary me can do. Gypsy says I'd kill ma self If I was you.
~ Langston Hughes
They were charming and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair.
~ Lemony Snicket
One might say they are magnets for misfortune.
~ Lemony Snicket
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I am particularly unlucky in meeting with a person so able to expose my real character, in a part of the world where I had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit.
~ Jane Austen
He has been so unlucky as to lose your friendship," replied Elizabeth with emphasis, "and in a manner which he is likely to suffer from all his life.
~ Jane Austen
I'm an unlucky charm... don't go anywhere with me.
~ Sophie Turner
My characters are always unlucky in love. It's annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it's why I play such damaged people when I'm not particularly damaged myself, I would say.
~ Vanessa Kirby
I have got a self-confidence that I have the ability but felt I was not being lucky and was an unlucky person.
~ Michail Antonio
There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
~ Ian McShane
We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina.
~ Michel Patini