Top 778 Fatal Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
No daring is fatal.
The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring,
in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.
It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
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.
The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
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.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
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.
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.
I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else - that would be fatal.
No one can play crazy like Glenn Close. I loved her in 'Fatal Attraction,' '101 Dalmatians,' 'The World According to Garp' - all of those are great.
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.
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
Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.
If possible, avoid being a bubble; for a bubble, even the gentlest touch is fatal.
If I were to do a drama again, I would really like to work on a fatal melodrama, like a love that can't be.
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
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.
[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.
I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.
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.
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
'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.
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
[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.
I have done my best. I saw a fatal flaw in the camera industry. We did our best to address it.
When you are defending your title at any point in your career, a loss can be fatal.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
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.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly;
To every day we live, a day we die.
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead; thus on, til wisdom is pushed our of life.
For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.
Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.
There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
To me, these kind of everyday miseries act as a fatal disqualifier. My sunniest beliefs are basically contingent on the fact that my child is not dying of cancer right now.
Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.
... 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.
"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"
Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.
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?
Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.
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.
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.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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.
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.
There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
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.
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.
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.
Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.
One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
