Top 100 Is Fatal Quotes
#2. Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.
Theodore Roosevelt
#4. That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
C.S. Lewis
#5. In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.
Thomas Sowell
#6. 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.
Isak Dinesen
#7. The fatal historical mistake of liberalism is to see no enemy on the left, to consider that the enemy is always on the right.
Anonymous
#8. 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.
Thomas Keneally
#9. Once for all God made complete and perfect provision for the cure of man's sins; without the blood of Christ, it is indeed a fatal disease.
Billy Graham
#10. Avoid outshining the master. All superiority is odious, but the superiority of a subject over his prince is not only stupid, it is fatal. This is a lesson that the stars in the sky teach us - they may be related to the sun, and just as brilliant, but they never appear in her company.
Baltasar Gracian
#11. Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.
Jeanne Phillips
#12. Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.
Edna Buchanan
#14. Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Shula
#15. There is a point at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
#16. Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.
Aldous Huxley
#17. Love is a condition that tends to cloud men's reason, but it is not fatal. Usually all the patient needs is to have his love returned, and he will snap out of it and begin to sniff the air in search of new prey
Isabel Allende
#18. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.
Israelmore Ayivor
#19. The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish ... between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.
Marvin J. Ashton
#20. For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
Lauren DeStefano
#21. If possible, avoid being a bubble; for a bubble, even the gentlest touch is fatal.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. Love is fatal; a snake that slithers into your life, poisons you with its venom and then leaves you there to die.
Callie Anderson
#23. To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.
John Ashcroft
#24. To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
Henry A. Kissinger
#25. If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature's larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
Terence McKenna
#26. 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!
Zhuangzi
#27. Don't believe the ugly. It's not true. The only fatal thing is to give up."
"But..."
"If you can't let go of the past, you'll never be anything but a slave to it.
E.J. Squires
#28. Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.
Deepak Chopra
#30. Unlike other sicknesses, life is always fatal. It doesn't tolerate therapies. It would be like stopping the holes that we have in our bodies, believing them wounds. We would die of strangulation the moment we were treated.
Italo Svevo
#31. XII Do not live for death, pay it no fear or wonder. This is the firmest law of the truest faith. Death is the dew that wets the grass in the early morning dark. It is God's entirely. Withdraw your fatal homage, and live.
Wendell Berry
#32. 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.
Allan Bloom
#33. Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.
Gabriel Chevallier
#34. Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#35. ...to imitate Western civilization in its spirit, its mode of life and its social organization is impossible without dealing a fatal blow to the very existence of Islam as an ideological proposition.
Muhammad Asad
#36. Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty
the shame of being thought poor
it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.
William Cobbett
#37. Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
Cyril Connolly
#38. 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.
Banesh Hoffmann
#39. He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.
John Piper
#40. Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
Oscar Wilde
#41. Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Winston Churchill
#42. Just because some dreams never see light that doesn't make us nonbelievers, they are wings to our sky and fiction makes us dream. I know the truth is fatal, especially for the stubborn's but trust me the illusion is worse.
Parul Wadhwa
#43. The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#44. Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
Thornton Wilder
#45. The most common genetic disorder caused by inbreeding is spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). SMA causes the death of the cells in the spinal cord, and is often fatal or severely disabling.
Randall Munroe
#46. MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
Annette Funicello
#47. The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.
Winston Churchill
#48. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty, Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend, you would sacrifice the world. In
Rick Riordan
#50. It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.
Gene Weingarten
#51. Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but little affected by other disorders or incidental mishaps. Whereas, on the other hand, I truly conclude that disorderly habits of living are those which are fatal.
Luigi Cornaro
#52. 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.
Debasish Mridha
#53. 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.
William E. Gladstone
#54. The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
Aldous Huxley
#57. THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two.
Ken Wilber
#58. There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.
Susan Mitchell
#59. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
#60. Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.
Charles M. Schwab
#62. The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.
Li Yizhong
#63. A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
J.G. Holland
#64. Evil is not good's absence but gravity's
everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains
inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.
Geoffrey Hill
#65. To perform without a net is ecstasy." Papa Phom had often reminded her, "To perform without focus is fatal.
Tom Robbins
#66. Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
Samuel Johnson
#67. For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.
George W. Bush
#68. Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
John Roberts
#69. Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.
John James Ingalls
#70. Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
Andre Gide
#71. Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.
Winston Churchill
H.A. Corby
#72. I was still rather young, and I hadn't thought it through, how irrational, how unpredictable is the attraction between people, how fatal its current.
Magda Szabo
#73. The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor ... Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas.
James Agee
#74. Right! There are plots.
Your beauty! Oh, ten thousand curses on 't!
How long have I beheld the devil in crystal!
Thou hast led me, like an heathen sacrifice,
With music, and with fatal yokes of flowers,
To my eternal ruin. Woman to man
Is either a god, or a wolf.
John Webster
#75. Here in the United States, we're consumed by our love of money and status. We think bigger is better, and if we can just get that promotion, all will be well with our souls. There's one fatal flaw to this mindset: it's all smoke and mirrors.
Jen Lilley
#76. Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer's disease accelerated one hundred times.
Steven Magee
#77. Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.
Lucan
#78. The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin.
However, it is short-lived and fatal.
Billy Graham
#79. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Mark Twain
#80. Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
Hervey Allen
#81. 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.
David Hume
#82. I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
Damon Lindelof
#83. If there is one fatal flaw in this business, it is allowing isolated information to drive trading or investing decisions-committing money without understanding all the risks. And there is only one way to understand all the risks: through systematic knowledge.
Victor Sperandeo
#85. The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.
John Ruskin
#86. 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.
Charles Koch
#87. Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile ...
Mary Ritter Beard
#88. And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might personally meet a fatal catastrophe first - 'non-violent' Dr. King, or so-called 'violent' me.
Malcolm X
#89. 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.
William James
#90. [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.
Mildred Cable
#91. It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
Stirling Moss
#92. Readers should not be loaded with more information and guidance than a lively mind needs
puzzlement can be accepted, but insulting clarity is fatal to a poem.
William Stafford
#94. Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.
Harvey MacKay
#95. Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time.
Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.
Fred Allen
#97. 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.
Alexander MacLaren
#98. Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Dale Carnegie
#99. Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is the most fatal. I see [clearly] that no American should come to Europe under 30 years of age.
Thomas Jefferson
