Quotes about Fatal

Watch out for cliffs on the left. Fatal spot again. Votes: 3

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood. Votes: 3

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me. Votes: 3

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue. Votes: 3

Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer. Votes: 3

Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it. Votes: 3

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test. Votes: 3

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph. Votes: 3

I find 'Fatal Attraction' really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I'm surprised when it goes dark. I know that's the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is. Votes: 3

Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov. Votes: 3

Ideas are fatal to caste. Votes: 2

Inquiry is fatal to certainty. Votes: 2

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. Votes: 2

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. Votes: 2

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Votes: 2

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. Votes: 2

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. Votes: 2

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. Votes: 2

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal. Votes: 2

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. Votes: 2

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Votes: 2

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. Votes: 2

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still. Votes: 2

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. Votes: 2

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. Votes: 2

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. Votes: 2

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. Votes: 2

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. Votes: 2

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature. Votes: 2

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. Votes: 2

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear. Votes: 2

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. Votes: 2

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. Votes: 2

I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them. Votes: 2

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. Votes: 2

For people who are afraid to talk about cancer, for people who are afraid to communicate with their loved ones about it, and for the people who want to pretend cancer doesn't exist, either delaying diagnosis or not getting regular checkups, the consequences can be fatal. Doing nothing about cancer will kill you. Votes: 2

No daring is fatal. Votes: 0

Action without study is fatal.... Votes: 0

Surfeits of happiness are fatal. Votes: 0

Necessity inspires the fatal thought. Votes: 0

Reverence is fatal to literature. Votes: 0

Respect is fatal, isn't it? Votes: 0

Travel is fatal to bigotry. Votes: 0

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion. Votes: 0

The fatal futility of Fact. Votes: 0

Success isnt permanent & failure isnt fatal. Votes: 0

Lack of charisma can be fatal. Votes: 0

Second guesses in putting are fatal. Votes: 0

laughter is always fatal to feeling ... Votes: 0

Many a healthy reaction has proved fatal. Votes: 0

Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately. Votes: 0

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. Votes: 0

That fatal drollery called a representative government. Votes: 0

Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final. Votes: 0

A fatal recovery from a promising illness Votes: 0

You smile. No, it is not fatal. Votes: 0

Fear is the fatal killer of desire. Votes: 0

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. Votes: 0

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes. Votes: 0

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine. Votes: 0

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. Votes: 0

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal. Votes: 0

Success is not permanent & failure is not fatal. Votes: 0

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal. Votes: 0

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. Votes: 0

Often it is fatal to live too long. Votes: 0

All prejudices are equally fatal to good government. Votes: 0

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Votes: 0

Failure isn't fatal unless you let it be. Votes: 0

Success in never final; failure is never fatal Votes: 0

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Votes: 0

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults. Votes: 0

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay. Votes: 0

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal. Votes: 0

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease. Votes: 0

Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent. Votes: 0

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.... Votes: 0

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. Votes: 0

Money and good pussy's a fatal attraction for men. Votes: 0

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess Votes: 0

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared. Votes: 0

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared Votes: 0

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. Votes: 0

Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes. Votes: 0

To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal. Votes: 0

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser. Votes: 0

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal. Votes: 0

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed Votes: 0

Who is fatal to others is so to himself. Votes: 0

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. Votes: 0

Be careful crossing above the waterfall, it's a fatal spot. Votes: 0

Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal. Votes: 0

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal. Votes: 0

Reality is fatal whereas fantasy is something to die for. Votes: 0

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. Votes: 0

Sometimes even a Yes can be fatal for our Souls Votes: 0

I made a fatal error thinking he could save me. Votes: 0

He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing Votes: 0

It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time. Votes: 0

Sometimes even a "Yes" can be fatal for our Souls Votes: 0

Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader. Votes: 0

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. Votes: 0

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us. Votes: 0

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness. Votes: 0

Life is always fatal. No one gets out of it alive Votes: 0

Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty. Votes: 0

Thy fatal shafts unerring move; I bow before thine altar, Love! Votes: 0

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal. Votes: 0

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda Votes: 0

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. Votes: 0

Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is. Votes: 0

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should. Votes: 0

Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners. Votes: 0

The problem with heart disease is the first symptom is often fatal. Votes: 0

All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal. Votes: 0

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes. Votes: 0

Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier. Votes: 0

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be. Votes: 0

The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers. Votes: 0

Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents. Votes: 0

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it. Votes: 0

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality. Votes: 0

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. Votes: 0

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. Votes: 0

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit ... Votes: 0

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything. Votes: 0

Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism. Votes: 0

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal. Votes: 0

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss. Votes: 0

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal. Votes: 0

There are two things that kill a genius: a fatal disease and contentment. Votes: 0

One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount. Votes: 0

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal. Votes: 0

Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world. Votes: 0

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone. Votes: 0

The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits. Votes: 0

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you. Votes: 0

A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal. Votes: 0

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. Votes: 0

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion. Votes: 0

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly. Votes: 0

I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo. Votes: 0

You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him. Votes: 0

A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal. Votes: 0

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin. Votes: 0

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal. Votes: 0

Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal? Votes: 0

It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong. Votes: 0

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. Votes: 0

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith. Votes: 0

The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again. Votes: 0

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you. Votes: 0

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny. Votes: 0

For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America. Votes: 0

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged. Votes: 0

The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism. Votes: 0

Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true. Votes: 0

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart. Votes: 0

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion. Votes: 0

If possible, avoid being a bubble; for a bubble, even the gentlest touch is fatal. Votes: 0

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it. Votes: 0

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set. Votes: 0

Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course. Votes: 0

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass. Votes: 0

It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process. Votes: 0

What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time. Votes: 0

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying. Votes: 0

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. Votes: 0

It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark. Votes: 0

Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error. Votes: 0

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself. Votes: 0

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. Votes: 0

[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism. Votes: 0

Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age. Votes: 0

Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are. Votes: 0

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion. Votes: 0

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal Votes: 0

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful." Votes: 0

The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent. Votes: 0

I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw. Votes: 0

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die. Votes: 0

Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal. Votes: 0

It is no sin to doubt some things but it may be fatal to believe everything. Votes: 0

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness Votes: 0

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Votes: 0

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Votes: 0

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive. Votes: 0

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. Votes: 0

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. Votes: 0

There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting. Votes: 0

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error. Votes: 0

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. Votes: 0

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards. Votes: 0

For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. Votes: 0

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. Votes: 0

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. Votes: 0

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies. Votes: 0

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so. Votes: 0

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal. Votes: 0

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. Votes: 0

Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body. Votes: 0

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. Votes: 0

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it's time for me to go to bed. Votes: 0

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects. Votes: 0

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe. Votes: 0

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone Votes: 0

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal. Votes: 0

When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal. Votes: 0

Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy. Votes: 0

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood. Votes: 0

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail. Votes: 0

Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it. Votes: 0

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius. Votes: 0

The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit Votes: 0

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal. Votes: 0

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it. Votes: 0

The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name. Votes: 0

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion. Votes: 0

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Votes: 0

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal. Votes: 0

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. Votes: 0

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it. Votes: 0

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera. Votes: 0

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Votes: 0

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. Votes: 0

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. Votes: 0

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people Votes: 0

A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out Votes: 0

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal." Votes: 0

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal. Votes: 0

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived. Votes: 0

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality. Votes: 0

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well~? Votes: 0

Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture. Votes: 0

To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal. Votes: 0

No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support. Votes: 0

I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life. Votes: 0

For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed. Votes: 0

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion? Votes: 0

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal. Votes: 0

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. Votes: 0

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself. Votes: 0

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal. Votes: 0

Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind. Votes: 0

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance. Votes: 0

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth. Votes: 0

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. Votes: 0

The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions. Votes: 0

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. Votes: 0

On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground. Votes: 0

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void Votes: 0

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity. Votes: 0

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void. Votes: 0

But our trials need not be spiritually fatal. They need not take us from our covenants or from the household of God. Votes: 0

Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke. Votes: 0

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. Votes: 0

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. Votes: 0

I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people. Votes: 0

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. Votes: 0

What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot! Votes: 0

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible. Votes: 0

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? Votes: 0

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. Votes: 0

So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love. Votes: 0

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. Votes: 0

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence. Votes: 0

It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up. Votes: 0

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life. Votes: 0

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him. Votes: 0

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal. Votes: 0

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose. Votes: 0

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. Votes: 0

To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down. Votes: 0

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have. Votes: 0

Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts. Votes: 0

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. Votes: 0

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal. Votes: 0

The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence. Votes: 0

Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery. Votes: 0

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil. Votes: 0

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did. Votes: 0

Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head Votes: 0

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be. Votes: 0

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water. Votes: 0

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career. Votes: 0

The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake. Votes: 0

Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine. Votes: 0

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded. Votes: 0

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise. Votes: 0

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise. Votes: 0

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors. Votes: 0

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal. Votes: 0

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees. Votes: 0

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. Votes: 0

To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality. Votes: 0

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh. Votes: 0

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day. Votes: 0

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 race. Votes: 0

Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade. Votes: 0

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 a brickbat. Votes: 0

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day. Votes: 0

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation. Votes: 0

The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.... Votes: 0

I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication. Votes: 0

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. Votes: 0

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. Votes: 0

Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal. Votes: 0

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual Votes: 0

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is. Votes: 0

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal. Votes: 0

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him. Votes: 0

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. Votes: 0

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly. Votes: 0

My fatal flaw is hubris. The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? No, seaweed brain. That's hummus. Hubris is worse. What could be worse than hummus? Votes: 0

Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. Votes: 0

[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train. Votes: 0

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal. Votes: 0

Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. "What happened to her?" he asked. "Poor taste in boyfriends," said Jacquel. "It's not always fatal. Votes: 0

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth. Votes: 0

This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake. Votes: 0

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical. Votes: 0

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents. Votes: 0

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer. Votes: 0

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness. Votes: 0

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 more medicine. Votes: 0

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection. Votes: 0

The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it. Votes: 0

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it. Votes: 0

Repeatedly asking for government help undermines the foundations of society by destroying initiative and responsibility. It is also a fatal blow to efficiency and corrupts the political process. Votes: 0

The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees. Votes: 0

Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image. Votes: 0

Pain and guilt tore through him. His soul was bleeding to death. He stood there, waiting to die. How could he not? But such wounds were not fatal. Votes: 0

Normally when a person has a stellar image another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself. Votes: 0

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal? Votes: 0

The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal. Votes: 0

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. Votes: 0

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal. Votes: 0

... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny. Votes: 0

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality. Votes: 0

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. Votes: 0

What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe. Votes: 0

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live Votes: 0

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood. Votes: 0

Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed! Votes: 0

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never. Votes: 0

You can't make a woman happy. That's like trying to cure a fatal disease. The goal is to treat the symptoms so you can comfortably live with the illness. Votes: 0

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners. Votes: 0

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences. Votes: 0

Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal characteristics of our culture. Votes: 0

Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood." Votes: 0

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. Votes: 0

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification. Votes: 0

"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter" Votes: 0

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. Votes: 0

Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield! Votes: 0

Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. Votes: 0

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about. Votes: 0

Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage. Votes: 0

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. Votes: 0

The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results. Votes: 0

In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being. Votes: 0

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death. Votes: 0

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 inextinguishable hatred for one another. Votes: 0

The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything. Votes: 0

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live. Votes: 0

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt. Votes: 0

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age. Votes: 0

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up. Votes: 0

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar. Votes: 0

That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency. Votes: 0

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously. Votes: 0

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men Votes: 0

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write. Votes: 0

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones? Votes: 0

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal. Votes: 0

All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils. Votes: 0

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot. Votes: 0

When the boys at school found out I had a potentially fatal peanut allergy, they used to hold me up against a wall and play Russian Roulette with a bag of Revels! Votes: 0

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence. Votes: 0

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 also the leading cause of fatal fires. Votes: 0

I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me 'smoking can cause fatal lung cancer'. Votes: 0

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength. Votes: 0

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. Votes: 0

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. Votes: 0

[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory. Votes: 0

Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal. Votes: 0

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death! Votes: 0

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds. Votes: 0

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse. Votes: 0

While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people, they finally dropped it from judo. Votes: 0

To get discounts on some drugs, private insurers are willing to pay top prices for blockbuster pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, despite the fact that Vioxx was rumored to cause fatal strokes and heart attacks. Votes: 0

There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it. Votes: 0

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 cosmetic. You smile. No, it is not fatal. Votes: 0

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them. Votes: 0

[On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies. Votes: 0

So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart. Votes: 0

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe. Votes: 0

Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal. Votes: 0

For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake. Votes: 0

...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things. Votes: 0

The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know. Votes: 0

I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible. Votes: 0

Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the all, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited, and to do that would be fatal to your hopes. Votes: 0

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain. Votes: 0

The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations. Votes: 0

Change is inevitable, so accept it.Forgiveness is a gift, so give it.Love is abundant, so spread it.Failure is not fatal, do don't fear it.Life is for living, so live it. Votes: 0

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy. Votes: 0

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time. Votes: 0

Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success Votes: 0

It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day. Votes: 0

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death. Votes: 0