Fatal Quotes

491 quotes by 390 authors

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. — Plutarch
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather… — Terry Pratchett
I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal. — Salman Rushdie
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. — Bertrand Russell
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. — Herbert Spencer
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. — Gertrude Stein
The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers. — Matt Taibbi
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls… — Hunter S. Thompson
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. — Henry David Thoreau
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. — Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. — Oscar Wilde
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. — Tennessee Williams
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. — John Wooden
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. — Virginia Woolf
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. — Mao Zedong
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men… — Mark Twain
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it. — John Updike
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.… — Neal Stephenson
But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch… — Marisha Pessl

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