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Quotes About Fallout

There was a time when I wasn't working a lot. It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my life and playing 'Fallout 3,' a very fun game.
~ Matthew Perry
I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a certain percentage of unborn children are doomed by fallout, and no one knows the cumulative effects of what is already poisoning the air and sea.
~ Sylvia Plath
I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.
~ Madeleine Albright
I know what the right woman, at the right moment, can do to a man- not that Tessie seemed to have got away scot-free herself. Some people should never meet. The fallout spreads too wide and gets into the ground for much too long.
~ Tana French
Beginning in the early 1960's, history began to rhyme once again when the Department of Energy and the military began setting off nuclear weapons in the desert. Mushroom clouds lit the skies, and fallout fell like snow. The explosions were called tests, but were nonetheless full-fledged dress rehearsals for Armageddon, perhaps more. Among the desert's longtime residents, the difference between nuclear testing and nuclear war was far from self-evident.
~ Trevor Paglen
Whatever power struggle your nation had with other Asian nations—most of it the fallout of Western imperialism and the Cold War—is steamrolled flat by Americans who don't know the difference.
~ Cathy Park Hong
There is no doubt in my mind Bill Cosby was a bad boy.
~ Alan Thicke
fan. You know, Jimmy's got records stashed away in case something unnatural happens to him." "Your friend made one threat too many in his life," Russell shrugged. "I'm only saying the nuclear fallout's going to hit the fan when they find his body." "There won't be a body.
~ Charles Brandt
I drank a little California Mountain Red at home and thought--why not--wherever you turn someone is shouting give me liberty of I give you death. Perfectly sensible, thing-owning, Church-fearing neighbours flop their hands over their ears at the sound of a siren to keep fallout from taking hold of their internal organs. You have to be cockeyed to love, and blind in order to look out the window at your own ice-cold street.
~ Grace Paley
I'd like to tell you not to be afraid, but I've lost my voice. I'm not used to all these legs, these claws, these feelers. It's the old story, predictable as fallout—the rearrangement of molecules. And everyone is surprised and no one understands why each man tries to kill the thing he loves, when the change comes over him. So now you know what I never found the time to say. Sweetheart, put down your flamethrower. You know I always loved you.
~ Lawrence Raab
A great short story is about the fallout from one, shattering moment.
~ James Scott Bell
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
~ Mark Twain
There is a lot of pressure on organizations and on players to win it all. If you don't, there is a lot of disappointment and a lot of fallout because of it.
~ Joe Flacco
'Fallout 76' is a very different 'Fallout' game. We're very aware of that. We think a lot of people will like it, because we like it. But a lot of people probably won't. We need to balance that. This is an idea we have, and there's a lot of old 'Fallout' stuff in it, but it's a very new experience.
~ Todd Howard
Mr. Dragonbreath's boss had brought in three motivational speakers in the last month to talk to all the employees at the antacid bottling plant, and Danny was suffering the fallout.
~ Unknown
The slumber party took place in what the Methodists called a family room, the Catholics used as an extra bedroom, and the neighborhood's only Jews had turned into a combination darkroom and fallout shelter.
~ David Sedaris
I've seen men ruined by drink, drugs and dodge pickup trucks, but this is the first time I've seen someone ruined by softcore porn...
~ Craig Johnson
Education is civil defence against media fallout.
~ Marshall McLuhan
That fat freak a guarantee one hunner percen nucular bum. Shit. Drop him on somebody, everbody gettin caught in the fallout, gettin their ass blowed up.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Williams created the first government in the world which broke church and state apart. Because those who had linked the two believed that political authority came from God, this led to a fission whose fallout included the new and equally explosive concept that the state derives its authority from and remains subject to its citizens.
~ John M. Barry
prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And the thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children and the children yet unborn.…
~ Unknown
This was arguably the most disgraceful episode in the bishop's chequered career,
~ Unknown
Which means I will have failed because of you. I may be low on the diplomatic totem pole, but I am sufficiently high enough on it that when I push you, you will die from the fall." She looked over to Schmidt. "And he'll kill you when he lands.
~ John Scalzi
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
~ Mark Twain