Top 215 Unfortunate Quotes

It’s unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you’re talking about is a column and beam.
David Chipperfield
We’ve gotten to a point where it costs so much money to make a movie that directors and filmmakers feel they have to make sure that everybody gets it. And that’s an unfortunate development, I think, in a lot of narratives floating around in the film industry.
Jeff Nichols
I think there’s an unfortunate thing where a lot of content geared towards kids and families is watered down, dumbed down.
Travis Knight
It’s unfortunate when I see brands spending a lot of time and money on creating online content that hardly anyone watches.
Alex Hirschi
It is unfortunate I haven’t been able to get the game time I wanted at West Brom but I need to stay focused, progress, and try not to think about it too much.
Oliver Burke
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
Blaise Pascal
If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you’re told it’s against the law in some cities. It’s definitely a bummer. It’s unfortunate.
Shaun White
We got spoiled with ‘Friday Night Lights.’ Not every show is like that, and on other shows, if you try to bring that same truth or that same approach, the system of television doesn’t always allow for that level of collaboration, which is unfortunate because the work would be richer.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I’ve met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There’s no greater way to gain an audience’s sympathy than by being unfortunate.
Seth Green
Motor sport is very expensive. It’s unfortunate, because you see so much talent that never makes it to the top due to the lack of financial support.
Lance Stroll
We were unfortunate in having lost our only child. Our world had come crashing down. But thanks to the world of medical miracles, we’ve become parents again at an age when parenthood is considered impossible.
Satish Kaushik
It's unfortunate how people assume so much about your l

It’s unfortunate how people assume so much about your life based on the work you do.
Bhumi Pednekar
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It’s the – the theater of the absurd. It doesn’t only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi’s Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam’s Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Well, the Cris Cyborg-UFC relationship has mercifully come to an end. The ending was ugly and unfortunate, but I can’t say I’m too torn up about it.
Ariel Helwani
The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it’s kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.
Conor Oberst
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Democritus
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested – to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes.
Steven Pinker
Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.
Sonia Sotomayor
It’s unfortunate nine years were in between – you can’t take that time back; you can’t undo it.
Alex Van Halen
I believe tobacco is a slow poison and it’s unfortunate that a lot of youngsters are hooked to it.
Neha Bhasin
I just think more precaution should be taken when I’m inside the pocket. Look at all the replays – I’m on the ground every time. It’s unfortunate for myself, it’s unfortunate for my team and I’d be lying if I sat here and said I wasn’t frustrated right now.
Michael Vick
The truth is ‘Akaash Vani’ was not a young film. The second half of the film was quite mature. It’s unfortunate that not many people have seen the film, so I am still associated more with ‘Youth Centric Films’.
Luv Ranjan
When I got released in 2013, I just felt that was an unfortunate situation for me.
DeSean Jackson
Now, if you are like me – if you are like practically anybody in America – then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or… you know… all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that’s unfortunate. It’s not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
Randy Pausch
To be honest, I think NBA experience and years trumps everything else. It’s unfortunate but when you come from somewhere else it’s known that you don’t have NBA experience and the NBA is so different to everywhere else so in that sense you need those years.
Patty Mills
It’s unfortunate, I’ve been the victim of some Australian press.
Cameron van der Burgh
You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it’s nice, I can’t imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it’s kind of a nice thing to say, you know.
Conor Oberst
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic – just one of those unfortunate things.
G. Gordon Liddy
Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer – established by the Congress – to be unconstitutional.
James Dobson
Every hairstyle I have is funny because my barber is a standup comedian by the slightly unfortunate name of Paul Sweeney. His cuts are fantastic but the chats are even better.
Joe Lycett
The mass audience doesn’t want to see you if you aren’t perfect. If you don’t look a certain way, if you don’t have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it’s unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.
Chris Pine
Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unfortunate fact: For the vast majority of crimes, a perpetrator is never identified or arrested, let alone prosecuted, convicted and jailed.
Tom Cotton
I’ve had moments when I’ve had to bounce back. It’s unfortunate, but you just don’t have time to kind of sit there and stew on things. You have to flush them out, move on.
Cooper Kupp
I’m from the old school – you go where the power is, and you try to make fun of it. When it becomes off limits to say or do certain things without being brutalized or censored or whatever, it’s unfortunate.
Dana Carvey
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
We, as women, particularly if we have families, you know, we’re taking care of children, we’re taking care of, you know, our home, our husbands, we take care of everybody but ourselves. And it’s really unfortunate.
Wendy Williams
Sometimes, it’s just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
Calvin Johnson
So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It’s like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials. There’s something that is taken away from your love of this thing and your connection to it.
Chris Carter
The unfortunate reality is the alt-right has captured white people’s imagination.
Patrisse Cullors
I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.
Jayson Blair
No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accid

No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.
Darell Hammond
If China can’t even given LinkedIn enough breathing room to operate in China, that would be a very unfortunate signal for a government to send its professionals about its priorities.
Rebecca MacKinnon
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.
Janelle Monae
I mean, an actor’s got to be known for something. Typecasting is an unfortunate kind of reflex punishment for having done a good job. But what’s the alternative? To not do a good job?
John de Lancie
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It’s very unfortunate to see the amount of obstruction the Democrats have put forward. There has not been a point since the beginning of President Trump’s term that they have said, ‘Let’s come to the table. Let’s work with you.’ Even when they see their own constituents suffering because of their failing healthcare.
Ronna McDaniel
I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I’m going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
Dawn French