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Quotes About Unfortunate

I'm an unlucky charm... don't go anywhere with me.
~ Sophie Turner
I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
~ Ian Mckellen
These kids, most of them, they were really hapless." The word stopped me, and Tyrone gave me a victor's grin. "Hapless," he said. "As in, not possessing any hap.
~ Timothy Hallinan
The unfortunate accident—for I like to think it was no more—that you had not yet been able to acquire the "Oxford temper" in intellectual matters, never, I mean, been one who could play gracefully with ideas but had arrived at violence of opinion merely.
~ Oscar Wilde
I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well. ~ Bertram Bertie Wooster
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Seems like it aint no end to bad luck when once it starts.
~ William Faulkner
I still prefer 'pre-Cleavage' but it makes an unfortunate pun in English
~ China Mieville
We are literally Two Americas, remarkably out of touch with each other— the fortunate living the American Dream but lacking any practical comprehension of how the other half are suffering, month in and month out, unaware of the enervating toll of economic despair on the unfortunate half, many of whom just two or three years before had counted themselves among the fortunate.
~ Hedrick Smith
Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation began crackling merrily like a kindling bonfire.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Pakistan doesn't value its artistes. I will get trolled for what I have said, but that is the reality. It is unfortunate.
~ Adnan Sami
Where accidents happen in succession, there is a kind of instinctive relationship between them. Having once smelled blood, they come running with a passion, impatient to occur in their turn, drawn in by the magnetic field. You become a kind of accident attraction zone. New mothers, for example, are particularly fecund and fertile. We underestimate this capacity which events - particularly unfortunate events - have of reproducing themselves not sexually but by contiguity, by 'kairo- genesis'.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Mourons : de tant d'horreurs qu'un trépas me délivre. Est-ce un malheur si grand que de cesser de vivre ? La mort aux malheureux ne cause point d'effroi : Je ne crains que le nom que je laisse après moi
~ Jean Racine
You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.
~ Daryl Hannah
Which would be unfortunate, both because I quite like you, and because then I might have to wait another thousand years to be rescued.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Here we have poor people, but poor because they have no opportunities. It's sad.
~ Paul Theroux
... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.
~ Susan Sontag
I hate the world," said Lancaster, looking miserable. "I don't hate the world," said Decker. "I only hate some of the people who unfortunately live in it.
~ David Baldacci
Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.
~ Herta Muller
One of the multitudes of exboyfriends had been a country music fan and left Gemma with an unfortunate passion for Tammy Wynette. It was like, Cat thought, he'd given her herpes.
~ Liane Moriarty
When you lose control of risk at a financial institution, you do a variety of unfortunate credit extensions or purchases - and all of a sudden, you've blown up your business.
~ Stephen A. Schwarzman
I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.
~ Rebecca De Mornay
There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.
~ Barry Sonnenfeld
Mr.Holmes is another sad work unfortunately.
~ Deyth Banger
I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
~ Unknown