Ominous Quotes

65 quotes by 60 authors

Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their… — Winston Churchill
We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has… — Al Gore
Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous.… — Joel Achenbach
"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention. — Josip Novakovich
I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life. — Daniel Dae Kim
My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness. It's always there… — Rodney Dangerfield
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and… — Elizabeth Kim
Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh… — Haruki Murakami
To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of… — Hans Blix
There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation… — Bruno Walter
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized… — Cordell Hull
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was… — M. John Harrison
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. — Colleen McCullough
But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock… — Jeannette Walls
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not… — Grover Cleveland
I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political… — Shadia Drury
Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them. — Laozi
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it. — Laozi
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long. — Laozi

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