U Quotes
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“Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.”
“Unfortunately, loving someone doesn't obligate them to love you back”
“Unfortunately, many souls do not step up to their soul task. After all, once the soul inhabits a human body it grows fearful of the unknown. Instead of embracing its true purpose, the soul runs from its own destiny, thinking that if it avoids it long enough those longings, those yearnings will just disappear. Some souls slip further and further into the abyss until they have nowhere left to go.”
Source: The Little Light
“Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.”
“Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.”
Source: The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
“Unfortunately most accidents are preventable. Planes don't fall out of the sky unless something is wrong.”
“Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"”
Source: The Road to Dune
“Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment.”
“Unfortunately, most people need to know a lot of what they do not know to know how little they know.”
“Unfortunately, most things that you do as a teenager you do to avoid being yelled at. I learned that freedom of choice is given to you as long as you choose what is already chosen for you.”
“Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.”
Source: Goldfinger
“Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.”
“Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.”
“Unfortunately no one knows anything and everyone has to know something to live anything which makes all people irrational and illogical more or less if they are not able to doubt everything. Evil minds take advantage of it to deceive even when it seems impossible there is deceit. They turn anyone against anyone but themselves and in the end they are the only ones favored. Immorality should not reproduce.”
“Unfortunately nothing happened with the girls. They just ran off giggling into the night. No digits, no dates, not even their names, leaving me feeling dumb and sad, a bit like a broken thermos- fine on the outside, but on the inside nothing but busted glass.”
Source: House of Leaves
“Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.”
“Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from the images on movie and TV screens. The true power of the media is the ability to redefine reality, to alter our expectations about what constitutes normal life. TV and the movies have abused that power by advancing the notion that wholesome, ordinary happiness is impossible.”
“Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.”
“Unfortunately our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very-very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.”
“Unfortunately part of pulp is that there is sex, there is violence. It's not a kids' show. It's an 18-and-over audience - like anything cable. I see some things in Game of Thrones that turn my hair gray. It's the way the industry has gone.”
“Unfortunately, people are erecting massive barriers around themselves rather than erecting beautiful bridges to connect.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II
“Unfortunately, people don’t know how they are created and live making grave mistakes, losing their peace, destroying their mentality and failing to fulfill their callings”
“unfortunately, people generally believe the majority, whether real or myth. I have found out that so much in life that was said to be a myth is real, and what has been said to be real, is a myth!!!!”
Source: LIFE'S MYSTERIES NOW REVEALED: READ ACTS 1:9-11
“Unfortunately, people may choose the lesser evil until there are no lesser ones to choose and the power to resist has been lost to a great force comprising accumulations of millions of minute relinquishments and accommodations.”
Source: TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit
“Unfortunately people sometimes suppress their lust. And it's not only sex. It could be lusting for anything really, anything that's supposedly very bad for you but can be good for you, too.”
“Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends.”
“Unfortunately, police corruption is one of my research areas. I do not like doing it, but it does have to be done. It is very risky! You can get arrested, injured or killed by the police doing it.”
“Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.”
“Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.”
“Unfortunately, reality was not so kind.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Unfortunately relationships will always hurt the one who is serious.”
“Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure.”
“Unfortunately, society is still backward about the need for and the place of psychotherapy, and there is a common feeling that anyone who needs psychotherapy is weak or incompetent. To harbor repressed feelings has nothing to do with strength of character or mental competence. And yet we are so unenlightened about this matter in the United States that one is virtually ruled out of seeking public office if he or she has ever been in psychotherapy. (page 102)”
Source: Healing Back Pain
“Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you're an adult, take refuge in the fact that some things are beyond your control. You owe it to yourself to steer clear of people who are harmful to your health.”
Source: Your So-Called Life: A Guide to Boys, Body Issues, and Other Big-Girl Drama You Thought You Would Have Figured Out by Now – A Must-Have Bible for Women in Their Late 20s and 30s
“Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside.”
“Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.”
“Unfortunately, Stalin's collected works contain very little mention of his early comrades. Ketskhoveli's relationship with Stalin must be inferred from the accounts of third parties. Official biographers evidently thought it unseemly to dwell too much on the connection between the leader of the Soviet Union and a tertiary figure, who figured only in the history of Georgian Social Democracy for about a decade and then died in prison in a quixotic gesture in 1903. The historical literature about Stalin is patently designed to create parallels between him and Lenin and, whenever possible, links. Thus, Stalin had to be no less a leader in Tbilisi than Lenin had been in St. Petersburg. In the official version Stalin is already first among equals in his relationship with the central figures of Brzdola (The Struggle), the underground Georgian Marxist organ. But by his own admission, in 1898 he was still an apprentice seeking sponsorship and advice from the leaders of Georgian Marxism.”
Source: Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin: The Intelligentsia and Power
“Unfortunately, the board of directors that the middle managers report to generally make them aggressive. Imagine being hired into a company and then being told that you have to ignore the emerging health and safety issues (This is illegal!) and not inform the workers that the system is known to be dangerous (This is illegal!). You have two options: To go to jail for illegal activities sometime in the future, or to lose your job now and have all your USA workplace rights removed for recognizing the illegal activities that your Directors want you to engage in. Welcome to the corporate America management team!”
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“Unfortunately, the critics of economics have had a tendency to discuss the whole structure as a tissue of misconceptions. It is a critique that fails. The strength of economics is its considerable, if far from complete, understanding of the flows and comparative advantages that underlie trade, jobs, capital and incomes, and the logic of optimising behaviour, all backed by glittering accomplishment in mathematics. That makes it a powerful analytical instrument, so that just a few misconceptions – such as a failure to understand the informal economy or resource depletion – have leverage: like a baby monkey at the controls of a Ferrari, they can turn it into an instrument with extraordinarily destructive potential. If it were a tissue of errors, it would not be dangerous: it is its 90 percent brilliance which makes it so.”
Source: Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy
“Unfortunately, the disease cannot be diagnosed unless the gastroenterologist looks for it, so referring to it as a rare disease was a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Source: Microscopic Colitis: Revised Edition
“Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.”
“Unfortunately… the happy ending wasn’t meant for us. Or rather… it wasn’t meant for me.”
Source: Where the Dark Knelt
“Unfortunately, the hardest thing for people to understand is that maybe if you leave things alone, it'll be better than stepping in and trying to do something.”
“Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.”
Source: The Quiet American
“Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church.”
“Unfortunately, the long arm of Will Grayson stretched all the way into the teacher’s gradebook and changed my zero to a hundred percent, despite the missing assignment.”
Source: Nightfall
“Unfortunately, the majority of young people in the United States don't receive comprehensive sexuality education that includes information on pleasurable and fulfilling sexual relationships. We also live in a sex negative culture that includes a lot of oversexualization, sex stigma, and body shaming so there are few positive and pleasurable representations of sexuality for young people. Many young people are curious about sex and how it works. As a result many young people turn to the internet and end up looking at porn to figure it out. That's like watching the Fast and the Furious to learn how to drive. Porn is not a realistic representation of healthy, pleasurable, communicative, and responsible sex.”
Source: Sex, Teens, and Everything in Between: The New and Necessary Conversations Today’s Teenagers Need to Have about Consent, Sexual Harassment, Healthy Relationships, Love, and More
“Unfortunately, the more my mind's eye sees green and gold, the more drained of all colour does the twilight seem.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“Unfortunately, the most significant moments of our lives are often unpleasant.”
Source: The Conjurer's Riddle