Fatal Quotes

491 quotes by 400 authors

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal. — Richard Hell
The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion. — Winston Churchill
But our trials need not be spiritually fatal. They need not take us from our covenants or from the household of God. — Neil L. Andersen
A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out — Jim Bridwell
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body. — Georges Rodenbach
To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp… — Annie Dillard
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below… — Florence Kelley
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is… — Nadine Gordimer
The â€˜machine-gunâ€™ approach to photography â€“ by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good â€“ is fatal to serious… — Ansel Adams
What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission… — Erica Jong
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth. — Edward Abbey
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough… — Edward Abbey
One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with… — Joan Didion
To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal — Henry A. Kissinger
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow marginâ€¦ I would have made a good one if I hadnâ€™t… — Robert A. Heinlein
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of… — William Gilmore Simms
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or… — Brian Aldiss
Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand… — Mahatma Gandhi
When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let… — Frank Herbert

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