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Fortuna Quotes

I'm gay. It's pretty unfortunate.

I'm gay. It's pretty unfortunate.

Louis Tomlinson
Gay, Unfortunate
"I just joined a social network that ships Harry styles and Louis Tomlinson" by Emilee Lindner, www.mtv.com. February 26, 2015.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

Curtis LeMay
Time, Unfortunate, Incompetent

In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.

Leonard Peltier
Illegal, Probation, Unfortunate

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Democritus
Education, Ornaments, Unfortunate
"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 161), 1948.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

Daniel Handler
Realizing, Series Of Unfortunate Events, Occasions
"Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography". Book by Daniel Handler, 2002.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

G. Gordon Liddy
Uncles, Unfortunate Things, Peculiar

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

Van Jones
Have Faith, Humans, Fortunate
Source: aalbc.com

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

Harry Stack Sullivan
Self Esteem, Unfortunate, Standing
Harry Stack Sullivan (2003). “The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry”, p.242, Psychology Press

It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.

Muhammad al-Bukhari
Writing, Noise, Unfortunate

One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.

Bill Lear
Motivational, Learning, Unfortunate Things

It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Suicide, Unfortunate, Commit

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus
Inspirational, Men, Unfortunate

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Virgil
Philosophical, Helping, Unfortunate

La fortuna juega a favor de una mente preparada

Louis Pasteur
Favors, Fortuna

People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.

Joseph Campbell
Unfortunate Things, People, Whole

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

Jason Statham
Injury, Enough, Unfortunate
Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 06, 2003.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

Dorothy Richardson
Childhood, Happy Childhood, Fortunate

I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

Andy Goldsworthy
Able, Way, Fortunate
"Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

I am very fortunate, and I never stopped being thankful.

John Hope Franklin
Being Thankful, Fortunate
Source: www.pbs.org

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

W. Somerset Maugham
Giving Up, Unfortunate Things, World

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

Roger Moore
Responsibility, Helping, Those Less Fortunate
"Portrait of the artist: Roger Moore, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2011.

What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?

Paul Newman
Hands, People, Fortunate

God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it.

Katie Davis
Demand, Care, Fortunate

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

John Kennedy Toole
Dunces, Fortuna
John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.82, LSU Press

We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

Jean de La Fontaine
Innocence, Innocent, Unfortunate
"Nymphes de Vaux". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1662.

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