Fatal Quotes

491 quotes by 400 authors

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is… — Allan Bloom
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making… — David Brin
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can… — Frederick Buechner
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. — Edmund Burke
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. — Samuel Butler
Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. — Cher
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put… — Agatha Christie
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston Churchill
Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical,… — George F. Kennan
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. — Camille Desmoulins
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible. — Thornton Wilder
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. — David Lloyd George
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable… — Alexander Hamilton
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has… — Brooks Atkinson
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the… — Coleman Dowell
In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided… — Francois Fenelon
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy,… — Olive Schreiner
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe… — Alice Morse Earle

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