The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide.… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Marcus Aurelius appoints personal character and conscience the ultimate refuge of happiness-seekers: the only place where dreams of happiness, doomed to die… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb… — Jack London Copy Share Image
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I'm doomed romantically. I try to find a formula for everything in life, and that includes romance, but my methods haven't proven… — Jessie Cave Copy Share Image
Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We live in an essential and unresolvable tension between our unity with nature and our dangerous uniqueness. Systems that attempt to place… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not… — Gueorgui Pinkhassov Copy Share Image
If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer. — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in… — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't. — Plato Copy Share Image
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology… — William Bratton Copy Share Image
every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent… — Jim Perrin Copy Share Image
