Top 79 Fatally Quotes
#1. Life, here I come!' he said. And was immediately and fatally run over by a bus.
Jonas Jonasson
#2. It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?
Terry Eagleton
#3. The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
Herbert Marcuse
#4. For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.
Shyam Selvadurai
#5. To grow up as a "girl" is to be nearly fatally spoiled, deformed, confused, and terrified; to be responded to with falsities, to be reacted to as nothing or as a thing - and nearly to become that thing.
James Tiptree Jr.
#6. I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual.
Charles Spurgeon
#7. Information is power. Information is security. Plans made with imperfect information are fatally flawed, will fail or succeed on the toss of a coin.
Ann Leckie
#8. I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.
Julian Baggini
#9. We would like to think of death as a release from the pressures of existence, but this is a fatally mistaken thought: it is the ultimate culmination of those pressures.
Anthony Marais
#10. General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.
Jim Talent
#11. A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles
Agona Apell
#12. No need to go to the dolphins," interjected Max Brailovsky. "One of the brightest engineers in my class was fatally attracted to a blonde in Kiev. When I heard of him last, he was working in a garage. And he'd won a gold medal for designing space-stations. What a waste!
Arthur C. Clarke
#13. We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
Horace
#14. Man is busy driving his life, and forgets it has an end until he fatally crushes it into a pit
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#15. The thinking that says, 'I will start building my ideal future tomorrow, or next week, or next month,' is fatally flawed. The future you are going to live is the one you are creating right now at this very moment.
Brian P. Moran
#16. Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
Anne Lamott
#17. You see," he explained patiently after they both recovered their wits, "I'm quite fatally in love with you. And it has recently come to my attention that after the New Year, I'll be in need of a countess.
Delphine Dryden
#18. Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid, but rather as a complement to them without which they cannot be fully consummated.
Richard Hofstadter
#19. Barack Obama has fatally undermined our currency, our solvency, our financial stability, and - ultimately - our economy all to spend money that has had no economic effect!
Dick Morris
#20. In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,
the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.
Francis Parkman
#21. The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
Robert Falcon Scott
#22. When you get to my age, you'll find it's fatally easy to forget to hate all your enemies all the time; and once you've slipped up and not hated one of them, it makes it almost impossibly hard to hate the rest of them.
K.J. Parker
#23. He hit and fatally injured my innocent and unfortunate uncle whose muttered last words in hospital, before his coma became a full stop, were: 'My God, the buggers've learned to fly ...
Iain Banks
#24. For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
George Eliot
#25. Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.
James Bovard
#26. According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.
Maria Edgeworth
#27. If you fatally kill fate,
your life sentence will be
to steer the reins of choice.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#28. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations ...
C. G. Jung
#29. I am no infant!" Valor growled. Why did they insist on treating him as if he were ill or fatally wounded? He was merely fatigued from a long night's ride and strenuous battle.
"Your behaviour would prove otherwise, milord.
Marcia Lynn McClure
#30. How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.
Alice James
#31. Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.
Sathya Sai Baba
#32. We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Samuel Johnson
#33. Suppose you had to remember to beat your heart, contract in exact sequence the muscles you use for every step ... Conservatism comes out of the body, the sense of many things being done for us that any attempt to re-think, or even make conscious, would fatally disrupt.
James Richardson
#34. I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.
Julia Glass
#35. Still ... I would have hugged my mother if we were the kind of family who hugged. If touching her weren't impossible. If her subnightie waft was not so utterly, fatally repulsive. That's how much I loved her.
Jerry Stahl
#36. Such gluttony second to none
Almost ended fatally
When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate
Jean De La Fontaine
#37. Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.
Laurence Bergreen
#38. Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#39. An economics of systems only-an economics of markets but not of men-is fatally flawed.
George Gilder
#40. Mahad had done wrong, but I had been unforgivably trusting, which meant I was fatally dense. I had failed to be suspicious. I deserved my grandma's scorn. I was not allowed to talk back to Grandma, and Ma said nothing to defend me. I could only sob, and seethe.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#41. He dialed the hotel he had last seen through the horn-rimmed spectacles of his childhood. Dialing that number, 1-207-941-8282, was fatally easy. He held the telephone to his ear,
Stephen King
#42. It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
T.H. White
#43. But I'm afraid you've blotted your copybook fatally with Clara.
Louis Auchincloss
#44. He wondered exactly how lost a person could get. Lost at sea, lost in the woods. Fatally lost.
Carol Shields
#45. The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening in the world.
Will Hutton
#46. Life is a risk, who knows this better than me? Who knows more surely that babies die easily, that children fall ill from the least cause, that royal blood is fatally weak, that death walks behind my family like a faithful black hound?
Philippa Gregory
#47. She was the kind of fatally pretty and nubile wraithlike figure who glides through the sweaty junior-high corridors of every nocturnal emitter's dreamscape.
David Foster Wallace
#48. Men who are fatally struck usually take a moment to drop. He felt rather suspended in that moment.
Julie Anne Long
#49. Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.
Dana Stabenow
#50. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.
Ambrose Bierce
#52. I admit it's fatally dangerous," Watney said. "But consider this: I'd get to fly around like Iron Man." "We'll keep working on ideas," Lewis said. "Iron Man, Commander. Iron Man.
Andy Weir
#53. In an odd way, we have really destroyed two of our strongest allies against the Islamists. Saddam Hussein, and we've probably fatally undermined Bashir al Assad in Syria.
Michael Scheuer
#54. Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Charles Baudelaire
#55. Diphtheria struck suddenly, almost fatally.
Walter Terry
#56. In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#57. between 2010 and 2012 young black males were 21 times more likely to be fatally shot by police than white men in the same age range.
Anonymous
#58. Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.
Omar N. Bradley
#59. Dogs, being wordless, can only be mirrors of their humans. It's not their fault that their people are fatally flawed.
Lauren Groff
#60. While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?
Henry David Thoreau
#61. [ ... ] I'm going to have to be systematic about experimental eating so I know exactly what fatally poisons me.
Andrea K. Host
#62. Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.
Samuel Johnson
#63. To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. feeling fatally drawn to him as a ship to the rock on which it will dash itself to pieces,
Carolyn Whyte
#65. It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
C.S. Lewis
#66. This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us ... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever.
Henry David Thoreau
#67. This is the crazed, manic energy of the bull at the end of the fight, fatally wounded but ploughing ahead, driven only by pain and anger and the mindless will to go on living.
Jonathan Coe
#68. My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes ... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.
John Adams
#69. In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.
Jacky Ickx
#70. It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
William Barclay
#71. Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.
George Eliot
#72. Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.
Criss Jami
#73. Human life is fatally fragile and subject to forces beyond our power to manage. Life is tragic.
Timothy Keller
#74. The 9/11 Commission Report is fatally flawed. The major conclusions of The 9/11 Commission Report, the official, conspiracy theory, are false.
Enver Masud
#75. Government welfarism, with its ever-increasing army of pensioners and other beneficiaries, is fatally easy to launch and fatally easy to extend, but almost impossible to bring to a halt - and quite impossible politically to reverse, no matter how obvious and catastrophic its consequences become.
Henry Hazlitt
#76. Isabel saw all their lives becoming history in units of days and nights so fatally private there was no one left for her to love.
Jim Harrison
#77. We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.
Henri Barbusse
#78. Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
Charles Caleb Colton
#79. We must beware of falling into the fatally common error of supposing that what we see is all there is to see.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
