Top 535 Unfortunately Quotes

When a town doesn’t have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
Irvine Welsh
Unfortunately, I cook for two boys, and they don’t care what it looks like on the plate, and neither do I.
Judy Gold
Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I’m shooting an episode and don’t even know how it’s going to end because I haven’t read that yet.
Fisher Stevens
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
Harold MacMillan
We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.
Johnny Damon
Unfortunately, I’m used to the insults.
Leslie Jones
People complain not because something sucks. People complain because they’re looking for empathy and to feel connected with those around them. Unfortunately, complaining is maybe the least useful way to connect with other human beings.
Mark Manson
I’ve already bungee jumped, so I am thinking about diving with sharks. I watched a little snippet of ‘Jaws 2,’ and I was like, ‘Nope! I’ll save it for a rainy day.’ Unfortunately, I live in England, and it’s always raining.
Georgia King
I think that there’s a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don’t have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.
Danny Elfman
Unfortunately, a certain type of Islam ghettoizes itself and is incompatible with our society. And it amazes me that some within the Catholic hierarchy act as if they do not understand.
Matteo Salvini
Unfortunately, I have a temper. I tend to flare up once in a while.
Akhil Akkineni
Unfortunately, I’ve never been mistaken as Johnny Depp.
Gilbert Gottfried
Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or ‘Huckleberry Finn?’ Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.
Jane Smiley
You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you’ve got to come down from that peak.
Jimmie Johnson
I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that’s not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren’t really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.
Jenna Dewan
Men, who certainly possess not only the savvy but also the know-how to be funny, for some reason, are just not. I began to notice this at a pretty young age, and unfortunately, a lifetime of living – and not a little bit of regret – hasn’t done much to convince me otherwise.
Ellie Kemper
And we’re fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don’t have that.
Keira Knightley
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
Ludwig van Beethoven
What we need to do is to come together as a people and solve the problems facing our country. And unfortunately, Washington is just not doing enough of that these days.
Evan Bayh
Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.
Marvin Harris
First and foremost, that was always my passion: I wanted to wrestle, but unfortunately, it took me down a road that I can’t do that anymore.
Paige
No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it’s fast food in the music industry. People don’t ingest full records anymore.
Tommy Lee
The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime’s Funniest Person in America. And that’s a really tough title to travel around with when you’re not even known.
Ellen DeGeneres
If ‘Befikre’ was representing the new-age youth of India and romance as what it was claiming, it would have been great irrespective of the box-office numbers. But unfortunately, it didn’t do that, and hence, I would not be interested.
Sushant Singh Rajput
It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I

It really annoys me that I’m vain, but unfortunately, I haven’t been able to discard that tendency.
Carrie Fisher
Ideally, schools should be supportive environments for students. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies tend to funnel vulnerable students out of schools and into prisons, low-income jobs, and poverty.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan’s real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.
Hideki Tojo
Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
Georg Brandes
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you – it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
Philip Roth
Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.
Hunter Tylo
Unfortunately, this world is not an easy place.
Sasha Velour
We’ve all lost our temper at some time. Unfortunately, not all of us have done it in a public setting.
Markwayne Mullin
I think that dwelling on other people’s perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
Kate Beckinsale
Healthcare in the U.S. remains a dire mess, and the Obama presidency, unfortunately, didn’t really address that.
David Garrow
Unfortunately, New Mexico depends significantly on federal dollars. We have four military bases here in New Mexico. We have two national labs that are very important to our national defense.
Susana Martinez
When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.
Jamie Johnson
I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.
Les Baxter
Unfortunately, I think we’ve probably all had the experience that if we’re in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it ‘my’ way, that relationship is not going to survive.
Twyla Tharp
Self-imposed discipline with a bent towards results rather than ‘creative’ and sustainability spending is unfortunately not the norm in the marketing industry.
Ryan Holiday
I had an awkward moment when I got a phone call from the person pretending to be Winnie Mandela. ‘Winnie’ sounded about 12 years old, unfortunately – she’d probably been pushed to the telephone because she was the only one who spoke English.
James Veitch
I am loath to suggest ‘Visitor Q’ to anyone, because you’ve got to have a warped brain to even understand or appreciate it a little bit. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I have been blessed with a warped brain, and I really dug it.
James Gunn
The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.
Mark Helprin
When you’re female working in a male-dominated industry, there are unfortunately extra things you need to do – for example, couch opinions in a way that sounds palatable and not threatening. That’s a skill I developed.
Goldie Hawn
Mental illness, unfortunately, is an invisible disease: it’s not seen or heard. For whatever reason, because of that, society has decided that if we can’t see it, maybe it doesn’t exist, so they want to just sweep it under the carpet or say, ‘Snap out of it,’ or that you’re looking for attention.
Mauro Ranallo
Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.
Joe Klein
The last episode of Dallas was in ‘1991.’ Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
Patrick Duffy
I’ve had such an amazing opportunity to work on so many different types of projects that continued on to Broadway. Unfortunately I didn’t always continue on with them. Still, you know, I always had such a great pride in kind of helping the authors and directors create the show.
Annaleigh Ashford
I’ve always had a glam squad to do my makeup because of Miss India and Miss World, so I never really learned much about doing it myself, unfortunately. I do try to pick up what I can, though! The most incredible product that has ever been discovered in makeup, according to me, is mascara.
Priyanka Chopra
Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
Bryant H. McGill
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don’t really have that strength inside to fly.
Andrew Shue
Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we’re gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.
Greta Van Susteren