Top 535 Unfortunately Quotes

The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.
Jodi Rell
I believe in meditation – it’s a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I’m too lazy to do it. It’s very hard work, and I prefer to watch ‘Nothing To Declare’ on TV!
Helen Mirren
Unfortunately, some parents simply don’t love their children. Probably they don’t even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem. Having parents like this is a terrible burden for any child and can shadow him all through life. It can even destroy him.
David Viscott
Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.
Mehmet Oz
I actually don’t read comic books. I did when I was a kid – I used to read a lot of ‘X-Men’ comic books. I read a couple ‘Scott Pilgrim’ this past year, and those are really good, but I don’t read in general, unfortunately.
Charlyne Yi
I’m a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.
Noel Gallagher
Unfortunately, I’m not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I’d have stack’s and stack’s and stack’s of different act’s. I got a lot here – I know what I done.
Edwin Starr
When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job.
Campbell Brown
I learned early on how to make best use of my time. You

I learned early on how to make best use of my time. You know, quality is more important than quantity when it comes to practice time. And unfortunately, I still need to practice a lot.
Joshua Bell
HIV is not a gay or straight disease. It’s a young people’s disease, unfortunately.
Forrest Griffin
As a Jew, even if you were not born in Poland, the very name, Poland, gives rise to a shuddering in your body and a longing in your heart. This country was the breeding ground for the soul of the Jewish nation, and unfortunately, also grounds to the largest Jewish cemetery.
Reuven Rivlin
It’s 2014, and women are still paid less than men. Does this suggest that a gender pay gap is an unfortunately permanent fixture? Will it still be with us in 50 years? I would predict yes. But by that point, it will be men who will be earning less than women.
Sendhil Mullainathan
I think most couples drift apart because of comparisons. Unfortunately, in our society a perfect match is when the man is more successful than the woman.
Sonam Kapoor
Female characters in literature are full. They’re messy: they’ve got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don’t often have that kind of richness.
Frances McDormand
Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid ‘Washington knows best’ answers.
Fred Upton
Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
James Carville
Suddenly in the end when it’s over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That’s the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it’s sometimes like that in sport.
Guy Forget
Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
Bryant H. McGill
Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I’ve ever worked with.
James Gray
I describe Jeb Bush as a ‘low-energy’ individual, and unfortunately for him, that stuck. And it’s true: he’s a low-energy person. That doesn’t make him a bad person.
Donald Trump
The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There’s no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.
Charles Krauthammer
Sometimes I work on film sets. I’ve done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.
Mary Ellen Mark
Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California condor.
Roseanne Barr
Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn’t just in my family. Sometimes, you’d see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you’d see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.
J. D. Vance
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi
Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.
Doc Hastings
Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
Sam Harris
I guess they just wanted to scoop a bunch of people up, hoping they got me, and unfortunately they did.
Sherman Austin
Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring.
Patton Oswalt
Our fellow players are sometimes occupying the spaces I want to play in. And when I see that, it makes it difficult for me to come to those spaces as well. So that forces me to adjust my runs based on the position of my fellow players. And unfortunately, they’re often playing in my zones. I think that’s a shame.
Robin Van Persie
In an ideal world, we would charge people a $10,000 success fee when they get married or a $5,000 success fee if they enter into a relationship with someone. Unfortunately, that’s a little bit hard to track, although someday maybe we’ll get around to that.
Sam Yagan
Education – much like law or medicine – should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
Randi Weingarten
My style can’t be held within a pixel medium. Like, it needs to be performed in a living, breathing space. People need to have all their senses ready to take on my comedy, and unfortunately, TV alienates at least their sense of touch, taste, smell.
Kristen Schaal
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
Jim Ryun
The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It’s not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.
Holly Madison
Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I’ve been graced with for my life, but it’s not short for anything – apart from Imogen Poots.
Imogen Poots
I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.
Harvey Weinstein
Unfortunately, I did go through a dark eyeliner phase!
Bishop Briggs
I remember when I saw ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,’ I wanted to go out and direct a movie right there on the streets of Manhattan. Unfortunately, you can’t without permits.
John Krasinski
Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.

Unfortunately I’m still not a fashion expert.
Magnus Carlsen
I think, in every person’s life, you have ups and downs. You learn so much about yourself, sometimes even more, in the down times. Unfortunately, I had to go through it in public, which was not easy.
Ana Ivanovic
I just want my career to be ran a certain way. When you get the sense it’s not, that your voice is not being heard, then, unfortunately, you have to do certain things to make a stand to fight what you believe in, even if you do have to sacrifice time.
Andre Ward
They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.
Lucy Liu
The idea of Homo monolinguis – one-languaged man – the idea of children having to grow into one system before we confuse them with another mental system, is an idea with which, unfortunately, many people are brought up now.
Ivan Illich
I wanted to be a part of the first ‘Twilight’ movie, and unfortunately, it didn’t work out so great. So when they came back and were like, ‘Do you want to come in for a part for the second movie,’ I was like, ‘Absolutely.’
Jamie Campbell Bower
Unfortunately, because aging is so common and natural, we tend to think of it as destiny or something we should accept.
David Andrew Sinclair
We’ve been a country that’s been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.
Condoleezza Rice
People have been savaged by a predatory economic and political system, and some are turning to Trump. Unfortunately, Trump is just more of the same.
Jill Stein
Unfortunately, my colleagues in Congress have unfairly burdened the Postal Service with a costly, unfunded mandate to pre-pay health care for retirees. No other agency or business has to pay these costs in advance – and neither should the Postal Service.
Marcia Fudge
The Internet is a very powerful tool; unfortunately it’s starting to get a little saturated.
Theophilus London