Top 778 Fatal Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
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.
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
A small business can survive for a while without making a profit, but if its cashflow dries up, the impact is fatal.
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.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Neither the wrath of Heaven nor the attacks of enemies
are as fatal as Pleasure alone when she infects the mind.
I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because it's been romanticized, the martyr complex - 'Look what you did to me!'
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.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
... 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.
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.
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.
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.
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.
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.
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.
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.
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.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
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.
A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out
War and armed conflict disproportionately affect women and can turn what is supposed to be a joyous and beautiful experience - childbirth - into a horrific or even fatal one.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates
the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.
If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.
In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.
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.
Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?
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.
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.
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?
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.
Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.
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.
I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.
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.
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.
Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.
Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.
Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.
Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.
Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.
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.
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.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.
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.
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
I made the fatal mistake of trying to cut my own hair. It makes me look like I have a good face for radio.
