Unfortunate Event Quotes

#1. Hans and Christian just stare at me, faces grim. All I can think of is how awesome it would be if my name were Andersen.

Cyn Balog

#2. A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

Judge Mills Lane

#5. Whoever said the truth sets you free never told the truth.

Leonard Pitts Jr.

#6. IN THE UNFORTUNATE EVENT THAT YOU FIND YOURSELF CORNERED BY A MEMBER OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN, PICK YOUR NOSE.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#7. And you yourself are recognizing that you are in 'relationship with a beautiful and powerful woman and we both definitely don't want to surrender to each other'.

Rajneesh

#8. Instead of yelling your opinion, or telling people to shut up, or engaging in this clickbait-internet culture, have a dialogue with someone and ask people questions and listen to what they have to say.

Aziz Ansari

#9. People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

Hector Hugh Munro

#10. Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two ... The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

Lemony Snicket

#11. For years, we have been asking the E.U. to create something similar to the Russia-NATO council. Not in order to simply exchange opinions and work out recommendations, but to make decisions.

Sergei Lavrov

#12. Part of this individualism is you feel this pressure that you alone have to conquer the world, and if you don't work all the hours God gives then you start feeling really guilty. If you can stop feeling guilty, then I think it's easier to start doing what you want to do.

Tom Hodgkinson

#13. It's not the sharks that will kill you, but the accumulated nuisances of life.

Michael Mazza

#14. There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed - thereafter, their lives could only get better.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. He was summertime itself, young, luminous, lit from within by rekindled hopes and reawakened dreams. And every beggar along his path - herself included - could expect redoubled generosity and kindness.

Sherry Thomas

#16. Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else. And through the development of this capacity, man may yet come to find pleasure in the spilling of blood.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. Listening to a woman is almost as bad as losing to one. There are only three things that women are better at than men: cleaning, cooking, and having sex.

Charles Barkley

#18. The message of the bell, the singer's tragic tone announcing it, underlined life's inflexible call to order, reaffirming the illusory nature of love and pleasure.

Anthony Powell

#19. I still perform it in all my shows. I'll do it as long as I'm breathing. I'm so proud it has stood the test of time.

Ben E. King