Fatal Quotes
491 quotes by 400 authors
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Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are…
— Margaret Mead
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Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a…
— Sylvia Plath
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There is a place for analysis, but it is apt to be quite fatal in prayer and meditation. Do not dissect the love of God,…
— Emmet Fox
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For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.
— Donald Trump
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Fear is the fatal killer of desire.
— Zig Ziglar
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(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that…
— Dorothy Parker
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
— Oscar Wilde
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Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.
— Harvey Mackay
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It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.
— Denise Levertov
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to…
— Virginia Woolf
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The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.
— Paul David Tripp
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When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.
— Paul Tillich
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the…
— Oscar Wilde
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Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us…
— Laurence Sterne
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Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many dinosaurs might have…
— Sam Kean
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We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any…
— Mahatma Gandhi
Who Wrote These Fatal Quotes
400 authors contributed a total of 491 Fatal Quotes, led by these top contributors: