Ominous Quotes

65 Ominous quotes by 60 unique authors

Thou ominous and fearful owl of death. — William Shakespeare
For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought… — D. W Brogan
Mainstream politicians will continue to protect existing systems of power, corporate executives will continue to maximize profit without concern, and the majority of people will… — Robert Jensen
Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf predicted the Taliban will fall for hiding Osama bin Laden. Ex-king Zahir Shah is standing by to replace Mullah Mohammed Omar.… — Argus Hamilton
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations. — Mervyn Peake
Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.… — Haruki Murakami
I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt… — Dylan McDermott
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built… — Oliver Sacks
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct… — Lawrence Durrell
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. — Arthur Erickson
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible… — Jose Saramago
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid… — Thomas Sowell
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. — James Thurber
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize… — Robert Harris
There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous,… — Jonathan Lethem
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And… — Cornel West
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if… — Maya Angelou
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or… — W. Somerset Maugham
In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange. — Tracy Kidder
When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill… — Gary D. Schmidt
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the… — Wendell Berry
People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching.… — Bret Easton Ellis
This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and… — Douglas MacArthur
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;… — Simone de Beauvoir

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