Doomed Quotes
455 quotes by 373 authors
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Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life’s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our…
— T. Davis Bunn
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The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were…
— Jodi Picoult
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Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the…
— Herman Bavinck
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If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is…
— Lisa Delpit
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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now,…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had…
— Oscar Wilde
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Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
— Unknown Author
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Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early…
— James Fallows
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In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
— Roland Barthes
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I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants…
— Ayelet Waldman
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We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind' appearances; yet at…
— Hans Rookmaaker
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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.
— John Haggai
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Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed…
— Lewis Nkosi
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space.…
— Frank J. Tipler
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There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea…
— Cory Doctorow
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I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then…
— Holly Black
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We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to…
— Brad Bird
Who Wrote These Doomed Quotes
373 authors contributed a total of 455 Doomed Quotes, led by these top contributors: