The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger.” — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“It's my belief that if we do not willingly embrace the challenge of Eden with all our hearts, then we will likely… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
“Rain fell on the roofs of the just and the unjust, the saints and the sinners, those who knew peace and those… — Robert McCammon Copy Share Image
“They're waiting for you. Go on in." Adrian leaned close to Keith's ear and spoke in an ominous voice."If. You. Dare.” — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The computer has always been this ominous, scary thing that came into music, for me, in the early '90s, right when I… — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
“Downfall? How ominous you make it sound. There is no downfall being plotted. Merely a question being asked. (Callie) Aye, and empires… — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
“Facilis descensus Averni," he whispered, his ominous and preternatural words striking her very soul. "The descent to Hell is easy.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“He is as ominous as anything I imagined a government agent could be like. He wears a dark suit with a darker… — Jonas Lee Copy Share Image
This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“It is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“The wicked beauty elicited, what was hoped to be, a misplaced shiver. Nonetheless, being near family vaulted to number one priority; the… — Daniel Lance Wright Copy Share Image
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“It was what should have been a bright summer day, but the smoke from the burning world filled the sky, through which… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Bond looked at the beautiful day and smiled. And no man, not even Mr. Big, would have liked the expression on his… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf predicted the Taliban will fall for hiding Osama bin Laden. Ex-king Zahir Shah is standing by to replace… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings… — Ben Quilty Copy Share Image
But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“I find it intolerable that this lord is out there going about his depravities unhindered. I was hoping you might know some… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the… — D. W Brogan Copy Share Image
People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie."… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve… And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky… — Elizabeth Kim Copy Share Image
Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
