Unfortunatable Quotes

#1. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it is a very unfortunate situation for the batting team. On the other side of the image, although being definitely unfortunatable for the batting team, it is most definitely a glorious silver lining for the bowling team.

Ian B.G. Burns

#2. Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.

Susan Orlean

#3. Two of the biggest drivers of airline profit are change fees and baggage fees.

Paul Hudson

#4. This beautiful Earth that we have, this gift that the Universe has given us is precious beyond measure, precious beyond imagination, and we are part of it and we must treat it with Love, respect, and reverence.

Graham Hancock

#5. Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell?
-Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

W.B.Yeats

#6. We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.

Nikola Tesla

#7. To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.

Criss Jami

#8. Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.

Barry Schwartz

#9. Is this idea of the non-fruit-bearing Christian something that we have concocted in order to make Christianity "easier"?

Francis Chan

#10. But you neither friend nor foe, though I can't seem to let you go, the one thing that I still know is that your keeping me DOWN!

Sara Bareilles

#11. I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive." Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered "a crime, not a religion.

Jon Krakauer