Top 100 Is Fatal Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. If possible, avoid being a bubble; for a bubble, even the gentlest touch is fatal.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. Love is fatal; a snake that slithers into your life, poisons you with its venom and then leaves you there to die.
Callie Anderson
#5. To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
Henry A. Kissinger
#6. 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
#7. Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.
Deepak Chopra
#9. He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.
John Piper
#10. 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
#11. 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
#13. 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
#15. To perform without a net is ecstasy." Papa Phom had often reminded her, "To perform without focus is fatal.
Tom Robbins
#16. 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
#17. [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
#18. It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
Stirling Moss
#19. 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
#21. A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.
Fred Allen
#24. It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
Benjamin Jowett
#25. Mark Twain said it well, 'Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Brent Rock Russell
#26. Knowledge is power, and all things are to be known in due season. But premature knowledge
knowing at the wrong time
is fatal both to progress and to happiness.
Orson F. Whitney
#27. Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Zedong
#28. 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.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#29. God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Samuel Butler
#30. My policy has always been to burn my bridges behind me. My face is always set toward the future. If I make a mistake it is fatal. When I am flung back I fall all the way back - to the very bottom. My one safeguard is my resiliency. So far I have always bounced back.
Henry Miller
#31. 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.
Paul Theroux
#32. Maturity ... is fatal to so many enchantments.
Mark Twain
#34. 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.
Orison Swett Marden
#35. 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
Marie Beynon Lyons Ray
#37. Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.
Chuck Palahniuk
#39. It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.
Brother Theodore
#40. One can no more set fire to the sea,
than convince people of the dangers of happiness - And yet, we know that though the smallest shock is fatal
to the filled up bottle, that shock will not break
the empty one.
Omar Khayyam
#42. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly ... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.
Virginia Woolf
#43. 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.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#44. No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.
Rene Crevel
#46. It is fatal for anyone who writes to think of their sex. It is fatal to be a man or a woman pure and simple.
Virginia Woolf
#47. Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.
Joan Hickson
#49. Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.
Randal Marlin
#50. It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
George Orwell
#51. 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.
Thomas Boswell
#52. The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.
Auguste Rodin
#53. It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will be neglect of the masterpiece.
John Erskine
#54. The CIA estimates that Iraq probably has a few hundred metric tons of chemical weapons agents, for mustard gas, sarin, and other deadly concoctions. This is addition to an extensive capacity to produce biological weapons, including anthrax and ricin, which is fatal within 24 to 36 hours of exposure.
Richard Armitage
#56. I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#57. Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.
Bill Bonner
#58. 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.
Berenice Abbott
#59. Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.
Mark Twain
#60. 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.
Shunryu Suzuki
#61. 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.
J.I. Packer
#62. It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.
P.G. Wodehouse
#63. In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.
Erwin Rommel
#64. The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.
Nassau William Senior
#65. I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.
William John Locke
#66. Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
Denis De Rougemont
#68. Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.
Elizabeth Bear
#69. A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford
#70. 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.
Philip Larkin
#71. Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.
Alireza Salehi Nejad
#72. 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.
Florence Kelley
#73. Remember, it is not the snake bite that kills, but the venom which circulates afterwards that is fatal. Do not let the snake bite of another person release any venom inside of you. You can control its entry and you are responsible for every thought in your mind.
Robin Sharma
#74. One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.
Ernest Bramah
#75. The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
H.L. Mencken
#76. 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.
Charles Williams
#77. Four out of 5 doctors agree that dying is fatal. Hence, the absence of the fifth doctor.
David Hammons
#78. Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Walter Legge
#79. A higher speed on the wrong path is very is fatal! Don't be desperate about going ahead with the highest speed. First of all, be sure you are on the right track.
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. Not to improve is fatal. Organizations who fail to respond to changes in the marketplace become stuck in a rut of product focused production with an ever shrinking market and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
Robin Byrne
#82. Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
William Gilmore Simms
#83. In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.
May Sarton
#85. It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.
Denise Levertov
#86. Reality is fatal whereas fantasy is something to die for.
Anthony Marais
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.
Edna Buchanan
#98. Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Shula
#99. 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
#100. Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.
Aldous Huxley
