Fatal Quotes
491 quotes by 390 authors
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It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be…
— Charles Williams
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As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance…
— Lewis Hallam
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Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious…
— Louis Finkelstein
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Second guesses in putting are fatal.
— Bobby Locke
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The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has…
— Brooks Atkinson
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much…
— Plato
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I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.
— Pete Maravich
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Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
— John Roberts
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The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in…
— Atul Gawande
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Success is never final; failure is never fatal
— Conrad Hilton
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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
— John Wooden
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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is…
— Ambrose Bierce
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There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy…
— Samuel Johnson
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The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius
— Henry Louis Mencken
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To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.
— William Pollard
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Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.
— Thomas Campion
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I know a man who was in a near-fatal accident that caused permanent brain damage. He was resuscitated, thankfully surviving. He has a family of…
— Amber Hope
Who Wrote These Fatal Quotes
390 authors contributed a total of 491 Fatal Quotes, led by these top contributors: