Top 535 Unfortunately Quotes

I have never been someone who applied ‘work begets work’ to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
Laura Dern
Politics boils down to the stories we tell ourselves. And unfortunately, we tell ourselves different stories.
Ron Chernow
I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can’t control.
Monica Cruz
I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.
James L. Brooks
Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali
Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It’s been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren’t really coming to pass.
Jeffrey Sachs
Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
Burgess Owens
With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it’s something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn’t mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.
Carolyn McCarthy
I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.
Eli Roth
When you post something, when you text something, you lose ownership of it when you hit enter or send. Who you send it to, where you post it, they take ownership of that information whether you like it or not. Unfortunately, you don’t lose responsibility for that text or post.
Mark Cuban
I can fake decent penmanship, but generally, it’s really just terrible. And, unfortunately for me, maybe fortunately for the reader, it’s very often illegible. If I get an idea, and if I do remember to write it down, which is rare, I write in such a way that I can’t read a letter.
Whit Stillman
Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.
Lois Capps
Whenever I'm asked to autograph a copy of 'Nudge,' the

Whenever I’m asked to autograph a copy of ‘Nudge,’ the book I wrote with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor, I sign it, ‘Nudge for good.’ Unfortunately, that is meant as a plea, not an expectation.
Richard Thaler
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
Hannes Alfven
I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can’t write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.
Todd McFarlane
Kind of the sad thing is that – it’s still true – a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there’s not a lot of crossover, unfortunately.
Jose James
I think that, unfortunately, it appears that Donald Trump is trampling all over the Constitution.
Joe Morton
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Unfortunately, I can only act; I do not have the looks, but I am very happy with what God has given me.
Dhanush
My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
Rodney Dangerfield
You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don’t become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there’s a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.
Octavia Spencer
Unfortunately, injuries are part of the game and you have to adapt, keep faith, trust and never give up.
Raphael Varane
I don’t go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I’m just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.
Lee Ann Womack
I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don’t like reality TV so much. I’m saddened by people who don’t show respect to each other and to themselves. It’s horrible. Unfortunately, that’s demonstrated a lot on reality television.
Barbara Mandrell
The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya.
Sergei Lavrov
Unfortunately, I don’t think I can call myself an activist because I don’t really do enough of anything.
Merritt Wever
You might make a lot of money, but it’s very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better – and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.
Peter Berg
Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing – and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
Olympia Snowe
Unfortunately, Haiti does not have many safe environments for children to play and express themselves.
Karen Civil
And so there are so many good things going on all across Iraq and unfortunately that’s not what the American people see on TV or they don’t read a lot about it in the newspapers.
Donald Evans
‘Creep,’ unfortunately, was one of my true stories.
Tionne Watkins
I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don’t create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.
Tom Verlaine
I was ready in 2008 for the Olympic Games but unfortunately I missed the Kenyan trials with a thigh injury. I watched those Olympics but it was tough to watch. But it was good in the end because a Kenyan, Wilfred Bungei, was the champion.
David Rudisha
If you have physical ailments, you will get everyone’s compassion, but when you have a mental ailment, you will get laughter, unfortunately. This is because it is very difficult to make out when somebody is sick and when somebody is being stupid.
Jaggi Vasudev
Unfortunately, people not just in India but globally seem to be lacking empathy. Not just during the pandemic, but in other times too.
Abhinav Bindra
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Carrie Fisher
Unfortunately, we haven’t found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet’s surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.
Robert Duncan
Unfortunately, in our country, crying is mistaken for good acting.
Naseeruddin Shah
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as ‘Tarzan.’
Henry Louis Gates
I’m unshockable, fortunately – or unfortunately.
Jaye Davidson
Let’s get one thing straight – there is a big difference between a quitter and someone who gives up. Unfortunately, I have the right to make this claim because I fit into the category of ‘quitter.’
Jenna Morasca
I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven’t been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I’ve been working, so that’s a good reason not to.
Laz Alonso
Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what’s happened I think we’re now in the dream-breaking business.
Meg Whitman
Science, innovation, safety and affordability. Who coul

Science, innovation, safety and affordability. Who could oppose United States food policy based on these core principles? Unfortunately, this idea has become unnecessarily controversial in agriculture.
Mike Pompeo
My experience tells me, unfortunately, that so many people ask the question about ‘The Smiths’ reforming without really caring about the answer. They just really want to ask the question.
Johnny Marr
The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
P. J. O’Rourke
I’ve never had a manager, and I’ve had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I’ve been blessed.
Rebecca De Mornay
I never brought it up when I coached, but I have close ties at Ohio State. Unfortunately, I even have a graduate degree from there.
Bo Schembechler
It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects, but unfortunately, the way that the business is, there’s such a demand for new material on a consistent basis that it’s nearly impossible to do that.
Jay DeMarcus
I’m a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier – unfortunately.
Lara Stone
The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don’t have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day… And what a day that will be!
Ted Dekker