Quotes About Unfortunate Circumstances

#1. There is good all around us, but we get so used to it that we forget to celebrate it. The bad and unfortunate circumstances in our lives do not deserve all of our attention and energy. Remember to look for the good and to give that your full time and attention. It makes all the difference.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#2. It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.

Dalai Lama

#3. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life - whether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can't rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I'm feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook).

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#5. I think that what is truly unfortunate is when an entire party makes a decision that they're going to block every single thing that a president wants to accomplish. It's very - it's very hard to get anything done in those circumstances.

Kevin Spacey

#6. How nice it feels to be good, she thought quietly.

Tove Jansson

#7. A true Lutheran relies on God's Word and would not worry about it even if the whole world mocked and despised him for it. He does not consider the world an authority in religious matters. He rests his faith on higher authority:

C.F.W. Walther

#8. Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

Richard Dawkins

#9. I lay under Luke, pretty certain I was going to die and wishing I'd made a will. Now, my sisters and mother were going to get all Aunt Ella's money. I should have left it to Sissy and a cat shelter.

Kristen Ashley

#10. I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Gertrude Stein

#11. Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

Hideki Tojo

#12. The more clear your vision of health, happiness and prosperity, the faster you move toward it and the faster it moves toward you.

Brian Tracy

#13. My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.

Kid Cudi

#14. Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?

Fiorello H. La Guardia

#15. Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. But if he has lost the sane vision, he can only get it back by something very like a mad vision; that is, by seeing a man as a strange animal and realising how strange an animal he is.

G.K. Chesterton

#17. There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#18. That girl is pretty kinky, the girl's a super-freak, I'd really like to taste her.

Rick James

#19. We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become fishers of men.

Billy Graham

#20. Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

Tom Waits

#21. The pain outlives the flesh.

Tim Lebbon

#22. To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#23. Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

Gail Carriger