Doom Quote by Fay Weldon Download Open image “The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.” — Fay Weldon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doom Ignored Pessimism Prophet
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
These are clearly the end times, and now we understand why the prophets warned us about the Trump of Doom. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Often, the scripts that we write that foretell our own doom are completely contrary to the scripts that God has written for us.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Not satisfied with what he's got? Is that it? That's husbands all over. Ungrateful pigs. You do everything for them, you bring up their kids, you cook their food, you wash their clothes, you warm their beds, you fuss over your face day after day so they'll fancy you, you wear yourself out to keep them happy and at the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
“There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“A brave little woman,’ said the vicar. ‘So many of our women are now left alone.’ And so they were. Those who in peacetime… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless? — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Women have always tried to make themselves attractive to men, and you're not going to change a thing like that in a hurry. Look around you. All the women nicely groomed and attractive and good-looking, and the men no better than fat slugs, for the most part, or skinny runts. Unshaved and smelly as often as not. They get away… — Fay Weldon Copy Share
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
