Fatal Quotes

491 quotes by 400 authors

One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution.… — William J. Brennan
It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are… — Ed Markey
Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from… — Helene Cixous
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political… — Arthur Koestler
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be… — Eddie Rickenbacker
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence. — Eddie Rickenbacker
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a… — Elwyn Brooks White
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while… — Ron Chernow
And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it… — Sanford I. Weill
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few… — B. C. Forbes
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon… — Nicholas Murray Butler
Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still. — John Fletcher
THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not… — Ken Wilber
Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass. — John James Ingalls
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects. — James Young
One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and… — Aldous Huxley
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal. — Samuel Johnson
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my… — Thomas Francis Meagher
Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.... — Mary Ritter Beard
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his… — William Kingdon Clifford

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