The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
Jean de La Fontaine

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.
Francis Crick

The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that.
Rooney Mara

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.
Jai Rodriguez

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.
John M. Ford

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

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
David Eddings

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.
Ernst Zundel

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
David Brin

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Democritus

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
Karl Kraus

There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.
Barry Sonnenfeld

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.
Seth Green

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.
Erich Maria Remarque

This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.
Juice Newton

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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 B. Waite

VH1 does its little '80s retro thing once in a while, all of us in our bad hairdos and unfortunate clothes.
Debbi Peterson