Top 215 Unfortunate Quotes

Baseball does become slow sometimes. It’s totally unnecessary. The – you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
Bill James
As a Republican, I believe it’s unfortunate that a perception still exists in the minds of some Americans that the GOP condones racism.
Will Hurd
There is some risk that if the wrong regulatory regime gets adopted in the U.S., then the center of innovation could move to other countries. If blockchains are the next Internet, that would be a very unfortunate development for the U.S.
David O. Sacks
It is unfortunate that there is not a government in Iraq that has been able to unify the Shiites and the Sunnis sufficiently. They are not currently fighting together.
Richard Lugar
Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.
Steve Irwin
The unfortunate part of being an actor-politician is that people feel an actor will not take her political commitments seriously.
Smriti Irani
It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.
Fred Savage
We’re long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It’s unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don’t reflect that in their boardrooms.
Anne M. Mulcahy
About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.
Donna Lynne Champlin
Biden’s support for Mubarak in the face of his falling regime sends a powerful and unfortunate message to the Arab world that their freedoms are negotiable.
Richard Grenell
One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the ’60s and ’70s is the belief that development is wrong and that fighting it makes you an environmentalist.
Alex Steffen
It’s unfortunate that Facebook, as soon as I come and speak out, they ban me from their platforms.
Christopher Wylie
A lot of bands have an unfortunate past; we’ve dodged a lot of bullets when it comes to that.
Tyler Joseph
Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.
Bob Ney
It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.
James Bovard
In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you’d be very unfortunate if you got probation – most of them were released immediately.
Leonard Peltier
It is unfortunate that nobody has highlighted the work done by actor-turned-politician Sunil Dutt.
Jaya Prada
This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.
Juice Newton
Unfortunately, in our culture, one person can write a letter to the network, and they shut something down. It’s unfortunate.
RuPaul
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you’ll find many of them are unwise.
Andrew Young
It’s unfortunate that you don’t see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.
Kevin Johnson
I’m a pretty chaotic person, but I’m also a perfectionist. It’s a very unfortunate mix.
Pawel Pawlikowski
You have to move on with your life at some point. You don’t quit fighting, fighting quits you at some point. It’s very unfortunate, but that’s the nature of the beast. And that’s one of those things, too, that I like to tell young fighters. Have a backup plan.
Forrest Griffin
It’s unbelievable, there’s a book out attacking Gore, when he’s the most unfortunate loser in political history.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Dave McCary
As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.
Deborah Sampson
I agree that my single-minded approach was a failing in life, but if I upset people, it was never intentional – it was just the unfortunate result of a burning desire to get the best out of myself and achieve as much as possible.
Geoffrey Boycott
I have an unfortunate history with Ethan Ralph. Like many women in the game industry, I’ve been doxed by him multiple times.
Brianna Wu
It’s a business when the NBA cuts you, trades you or waives you. But you’re a villain, as a player, when you take your future and your happiness in your own hands and it’s unfortunate.
Matt Barnes
It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.
Saint Ambrose
I recognize I have faults. I’m accountable for them, and I try to do what I can to correct them. I will say that it’s unfortunate that everything I do is scrutinized to the point that it is. Frankly, I don’t watch the news, I stay away from political conversations.
George Zimmerman
The jury is not in, so we just don’t know. But there are very strong indications that wormholes that a human could travel through are forbidden by the laws of physics. That’s sad, that’s unfortunate, but that’s the direction in which things are pointing.
Kip Thorne
There are a lot of middle of the road artists of the ’70s, who aren’t being played anyplace. I think it’s unfortunate in a way, because it stifles you sort of, you don’t get to as many people but I’ve had a long and wonderful career, I have no complaints.
Anne Murray
People just don’t like me, and it’s unfortunate, because I’m trying to get people to come down and visit New Zealand. I’m an ambassador for New Zealand… it’s kind of sad.
Steven Adams
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
Hideki Tojo
When you make that choice of stepping out and facing the issue of disclosure, you do create this kind of self-imposed negative fear. It’s unfortunate it still happens today. ‘Do I step out and say I’m a gay guy?’ But you have got to do it and live your life on your terms and no one else’s terms.
Rob Halford
I would never encourage my children to be athletes – first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.
Bill James
I was unfortunate at Tottenham.
Kyle Walker
These past six years, people have seen me as a woman, not a transsexual. People in the gym, people I train with, it’s been great, it’s been awesome. I’m just a woman to them. I don’t want that to go away. It’s unfortunate that it has to.
Fallon Fox
I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.
Victor Ortiz
Honestly, I don’t have time for a lot of TV. And it’s unfortunate, because I love TV.
Busy Philipps
As far as characters are concerned, Alan Partridge makes me wet myself. I’m currently reading the book and have started talking like him as an unfortunate consequence.
Greg Davies
You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It’s one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
Ted Cruz
The problem with copyright is it only protects that literal work. It doesn’t protect the design and the ideas. That’s unfortunate.
Shiva Ayyadurai
The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
David Eddings
The most unfortunate thing in cricket is not achieving what I set out to do from the very beginning: to be a part of a successful team over a long period of time. I had a little taste of it when I started in 1989, and up till 1995.
Brian Lara
Oklahoma City, Katrina… those happened to other unfortunate people. But 9/11, that happened to us all. And that was pretty much the genesis of ‘Reign Over Me.’
Mike Binder
Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can’t get a job, and if it weren’t for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that’s the story that we’re not seeing, and it’s unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.
Mike Huckabee
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy
It’s an unfortunate situation. After such a great play I felt like I got hit late, no flag, broke my hand. That’s it. That’s pretty much been the story for the past three weeks, and obviously at some point something catastrophic was going to happen, and I broke my hand.
Michael Vick
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 unfortunate, but I know it’s the right thing to do to end the shuttle program. If we want to do other things, we need a different spacecraft.
Shannon Walker
Every person goes through a bad phase. Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan, too, had a rough phase in their careers. In my case, it was unfortunate that my personal problems came up at a time when I took a break to rejuvenate myself.
Adnan Sami