Misfortune quotes
63 misfortune quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: A Tale of Two Cities
“Forgive me if I notice that you are affected. I shouldn't respect your sorrow more if you were my own father. From that misfortune, however, you are free. Indeed, that is one thing to be grateful for, I suppose.”
- From the movie: A Good Day To Die Hard
“- Jack McClane: Let me ask you something. You lookin' for trouble, or does it always seem to find you?
- John McClane: You know, after all these years, I still ask myself the same question.” - From the movie: Moneyball
- From the movie: Sex and the City
“- Carrie Bradshaw: What makes you think something bad is gonna happen?
- Charlotte York: Because! Nobody gets everything they want! Look at you, look at Miranda. You're good people and you two both got shafted. I'm so happy and... something bad is going to happen.
- Carrie Bradshaw: Sweetie, you shit your pants this year. I think you're done.” - From the movie: Restoration
“The fire in its fury has consumed the great plague. Misfortune may leave behind unlooked-for blessings... none dearer than you, my little Margaret. I will return to the city, to my work as a doctor, and the rebuilding of the King's Hospital. The stars that once confused me seem now to light a path that is clear, that I have in truth been...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Ride with the Devil
- From the movie: The Faculty
“- Stan: It must really blow being you.
- Casey: You have no idea.” - From the movie: How Do You Know
“- Lisa: What sort of trouble are you in George?
- George: Ah, well ah... simply put... ah, I'm currently unemployed, my girlfriend recently broke up with me, ehm, I will soon run out of money and, er, I'm the target of a federal investigation.
- Lisa: Wow, you are a real chick magnet, aren't you.” - From the movie: Bringing Up Baby
“- Susan Vance: You've just had a bad day, that's all.
- David Huxley: That's a masterpiece of understatement.” - From the movie: Same Time, Next Year
“- George Peters: When It comes to life, I've got a brown thumb.
- Doris: What do you mean?
- George Peters: I mean that nothing I ever do turns out right.” - From the movie: Must Love Dogs
“Everyone in the city is having sex at the exact same time except for us.”
- From the movie: The Watcher in the Woods
- From the movie: My Brilliant Career
- From the movie: The Dead Zone
"Bless me"? Do you know what God did for me? He threw an 18-wheeled truck at me and bounced me into nowhere for five years! When I woke up my girl was gone, my job was gone, my legs are just about useless... Blessed me? God's been a real sport to me!
- From the movie: The Company Men
“We're going to get through this. Things will be great again.”
“What might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may, in fact, be the first steps of a journey.”
- From the movie: Must Love Dogs
“I thought a great place to meet girls would be where they teach English as a second language. These girls would be from foreign lands and a little disoriented and I would look attractive because I speak English. But in the end it did not work out as I had hoped: I was told to take a hike in fourteen languages.”
- From the movie: Where the Heart Is
“Five days old she got the Jaundice. Five weeks old she got an ear infection. Five months old she was kidnapped. Five years old? I'm not lighting any fires, thank you.”
- From the movie: Where the Heart Is
“- Novalee Nation: No fives!
- Nicki: You and your fives.
- Rhonda: What fives?
- Novalee Nation: On my fifth birthday my mama ran off with a baseball umpire named Fred and never came back. And after I dropped out of school and was waiting tables at Red's, one of the regulars there named Gladys went crazy. When I tried to calm her down she jumped...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Cradle 2 the Grave
- From the movie: Room Service
“Couldn't I have a disease with my clothes on!”
- From the movie: Hellboy II: The Golden Army
“You say I'm not human, but on the contrary, I understand your pain all too well. A long time ago, I lost the woman I love, and that was, in fact, the cause of my present misfortune.”
- From the movie: National Security
“Your partner got killed. You lost your job. You went to jail. Your girlfriend walked. You got a job as a security guard at a hundred and eighty-two dollars a week. You know what you are, Hank? You're a black man.”
- From the movie: The Shipping News
“You don't have the sense God gave a doughnut, do you?”
- From the movie: At the Circus
“Ah ah! Bad luck, three on a midget!”
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