Unfortunate Situation Quotes

Poor George, he can't help it — he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

What is the distinction between "misfortune" and "calamity"? If Mr. Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune; but if someone pulled him out, it would be a calamity.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

It is grievous to be caught.

I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

It is something if circumstances were repeated I would not do again.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

A crisis, by its very nature, is a negative event.

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

Disaster, to me, means in some big or small way, things going wrong. And that's obviously a matter of perception, right? Let's say your puppy chewed up all the shoes in your house. She probably had a fine time doing that. In her mind, a red letter day, the highlight of her puppy life.

You're out of luck like two dogs stuck.

There are some people, no matter what they do, it turns out badly. They have a problem: either what they do is wrong or things that happen were wrong. I was president of a company like that; it was called Grid Computer.

I've written some happy songs but I can't ever play them in public because everybody will just start throwing up.

I let a friend set me up on a blind date. It was a disaster. She ended up being a burn victim. By the end of the night.

My birth mom has certainly not lived a life of means in any stretch of the imagination, nor does she want to.

A guy came up to me in the park and asked if I wanted to buy his CD. I said sure. He got panicked and told me he didn't actually have a CD, and he started crying and then told me he never made it and he's really sorry and called me 'Ralph.' New York's a really weird place.

It can be hard, swapping jerseys when you are losing.

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

It's like watching a car accident, that reality TV.

I feel so bad for him [Bernie Sanders]. It's really unfortunate that he's been caught in the crossfire here.

My mouth is sore from continually extracting my foot from it.