Top 535 Unfortunately Quotes

People assume that because you are on TV you must be a millionaire, but unfortunately it doesn’t work like that.
Simon Bird
If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can’t be that removed from technology.
Taylor Sheridan
The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
Otto Schily
As a band, we always took a really long time to make records, so unfortunately, we got into that habit of, like, ‘We’ll work on it tomorrow.’
Ad-Rock
I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It’s not a good place to be, unfortunately.
F. Lee Bailey
While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
Randi Weingarten
As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
Neil Jackson
I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that’s not something that is easily given. You’re at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That’s an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
Haley Bennett
There is a genocide that is taking place among black men, in particular young black men, but it is not a genocide being perpetuated by white cops, by the Nazis, or by the Klan. Unfortunately and tragically, it is being perpetuated by other young black men.
Niger Innis
What I learned, a little too late, was that the ‘traditional’ Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.
Martin Short
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it ‘philanthropy’ is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.
Naveen Jain
Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment.
Bob Filner
Failure is unfortunately as common as success.
Sanjay Kumar
Some people are born for a certain thing. And for me, unfortunately, I wish it was something a bit more artistic or whatever, but I was a born fighter. That’s what kept me coming back. It makes me feel alive. And, I just know, there is nothing I do better in this world than fight.
Michael Bisping
I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.
Sebastian Junger
Voting in our country has never been easy, and unfortunately, it has never been guaranteed for everyone. But through the work of brave civil rights leaders, some of whom died for the cause, by the early 2000s we were at a point where most, but still not all, people who wanted to vote could do so.
Jason Kander
Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.
Chris Van Hollen
If people decide thin is out, the fashion industry won’t have thin models anymore. Have you spent time with fashion people? They are ruthless. They want money. And the one thing they know is people want clothes to cover their bodies. Unfortunately, most people aren’t comfortable with their bodies.
Kelly Cutrone
When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.
Bernard Hopkins
Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It’s a billion dollar industry.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately.

Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately.
Sascha Radetsky
Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.
Shawn Fanning
Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you’ve got to just deal with it.
Brett Gelman
I have fabulous sons, but unfortunately, they both have that thrill-seeker gene – bigger, higher, faster, scarier. I have a deal with God. If I’m breathing, that’s a prayer for my sons’ safety.
Linda Thompson
I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting nexus through which to look at the way we are.
Glen Duncan
We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.
Mitt Romney
It’s a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can’t always do that.
Antoine Fuqua
Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.
Michael McCaul
I no longer say I’m unemployed. I say I’m unemployable. It’s different. An unemployed suggests at a certain point in the future, you might be employed. That’s not the case with me. I’m unemployable, and unfortunately, that’s one of the bits of the web, in particular of Google.
Norman Finkelstein
Unfortunately, people think I’m negative and bitter all the time, and that’s not the case.
Hope Solo
Most unfortunately, Enron’s plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.
Alex Berenson
Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence people in a good way, then that’s a great thing.
David Furnish
Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.
William L. Jenkins
It’s just unfortunate that a network only makes their profit off of live viewership because their hands are tied by advertisers. They may believe in the show and want it to continue, but they just unfortunately can’t afford it.
Madchen Amick
I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.
Jackie Walorski
You’re going to find England, unfortunately, is a place where you get a lot of jealous, envious, you know, negative people. That’s how it is.
Philip Green
I love green juices – the ones that include lots of actual greens and don’t include too much apple. Because those are just meant to be yummy, and we all know things that are too yummy aren’t the best for us, unfortunately.
Chrissy Teigen
In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they’re putting out. Unfortunately, they don’t.
Dick Van Dyke
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
Rudy Rucker
It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is – although we all think that we are.
Stanley Fish
Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn’t work in many of our lives.
Bruce Feiler
As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.
Tom Stoppard
People unfortunately think that if you progress as a musician you are wimpy. I don’t get that.
Chuck Schuldiner
I’m a very serious person. Unfortunately, sometimes.
Zoe Kazan
I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn’t know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
Walter O’Brien
A robber who justified his theft by saying that he really helped his victims, by his spending giving a boost to retail trade, would find few converts; but when this theory is clothed in Keynesian equations and impressive references to the ‘multiplier effect,’ it unfortunately carries more conviction.
Murray Rothbard
I love eating. Unfortunately, I have to be really determined and control my foodie temptations. That is the only thing I don’t like about being an actress; the constant need to check my weight. Otherwise, I love my job!
Sonam Kapoor
Oh God, I would love to do Broadway, but I’m unfortunately not a very good singer.
Lyndsy Fonseca
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don’t see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.
Josh Holloway
Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.
Isabel Allende
Unfortunately, there aren’t enough interesting acting roles in New Zealand to sustain a career.
Taika Waititi
I'm not on Page Six, because I don't have anything sala

I’m not on Page Six, because I don’t have anything salacious happening in my life… unfortunately.
Jesse Eisenberg
Unfortunately, many parents reject helmets for their kids out of a mistaken perception that helmets are unsafe for children.
Michelle Yeoh
I listen to somebody like Shawn Lane, and unfortunately he is no longer with us, but I hear him playing and I am like, ‘That is just absolutely ridiculous.’
John Petrucci
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
In Korea, it’s a tradition to inherit your father’s business. Unfortunately, I’m the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much.
Psy
I just feel like, unfortunately, I’m a person that has to be creative to live. Whether that’s, like, painting or making sculptures or writing songs, sometimes I just feel like that’s the only thing you can do.
Hunx
Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
Hamid Karzai