#unhappily

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together. ↗

— Edmund White

#confirm #desperately #excuse #i #identity

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#american #dead #i #only #over

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! ↗

— Jules Verne

#between #covered #curtain #earth #extended

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state. ↗

— Amos Oz

#both #both sides #burned #coexist #compromise

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#enter #local #married #men #politics

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#ended #fiction #good #happily #means

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#best #drift #earth #heaven #just