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  • Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.

    Morning   Wish   Enough  
  • I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

    God   Religious   Believe  
  • Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.

    "Condoleezza Rice plays Hardball". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 15, 2005.
  • This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

    Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”
  • If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.

    "Learn how to time success and avoid failure" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2010.
  • Oh, boy. I'm still in touch with about 90 percent of my exes. They would describe me as being unlucky in love.

  • You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup.

  • To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer . . . Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the reader's leg or was even an imposter.

    Hope   Stars   Mind  
  • There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

  • Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

    Robert Boyle (1772). “The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...”, p.36
  • Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have not invoked God's Compassion and Blessings? Is it because God has accepted this failure as an experience He wanted to have in our life? Is it because God has granted this failure to us? Is it because God has willed that we should lose? No! not it is for a different reason that we experience failure. It is for the strengthening of our consciousness that, at times, God grants us defeat.

  • Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

    Jealous   Justice   Speak  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 338
  • People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

  • Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?

    Clever   Men   Shoes  
  • A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

    Book   Fall   Independent  
    Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.96, Cambridge University Press
  • When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

  • Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

    Parent   Fool   Danger  
  • Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

    Critters   Unlucky   Stew  
  • There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

    Clever   People   Able  
  • There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.

    Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1125, Spectra
  • I would kind of, you know, go stand next to some unlucky guy and say eventually, Hi, I'm George. You know, I'm with The New Yorker. I'm a liberal. I'm somewhat left of Gandhi. Do you want to talk? And, you know, they always did.

    Guy   Want   Next  
    "In Search For Answers, Author George Saunders Covers Trump Campaign". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 9, 2016.
  • We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears.

    Water   Tears   Jogging  
    "Fictional character: He Zhiwu, Cop 223". "Chungking Express", www.imdb.com. 1994.
  • As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

    Good Luck   Men   Unlucky  
    George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.374
  • Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.

    Different   Lucky   Able  
  • But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.

    George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.121
  • Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something new. They're prepared to take risks and relaxed enough to see the opportunities in the first place.

    "How To Make Your Own Luck". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.fastcompany.com. June 30, 2003.
  • No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

    Wise   Gratitude   May  
  • How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.

    Brother   Heart   Journey  
  • It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

    People   Ignorant   Luck  
  • You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.

    "In conversation - Bernie Ecclestone and Nico Rosberg". Interview With Nico Rosberg, www.formula1.com. May 24, 2015.
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