Quotes About Fatality

But by some fatality I did not feel inclined to commence the study of any modern system; and this disinclination was influenced by the following circumstance. My

All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination; but by some fatality the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies. It

You travelled to seek happiness, but a fatality seems to pursue you.

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

The basic reality," Sandman told the New York Times, "is that the risks that scare people and the risks that kill people are very different.

in 1326, an ill-fated laborer by the name of Richard the Raker fell into a cesspool and literally drowned in human shit.

According to the National Safety Council, the horse-associated fatality rate was ten times the car-associated rate of modern times [in 1974, which is more than double the per capita rate today—SP].45

Plane crashes, in contrast, get lavish coverage, but they kill only about 250 people a year worldwide, making planes about a thousand times safer per passenger mile than cars.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

Again there was manifest that lure and driving of fatality which had all along seemed to direct my course.

Je l'ai tué, dit Angel. - Non, dit Petitjean. Vous l'avez poussé et il est mort en arrivant sur les cailloux. C'est un hasard.

fact, the first legally proven fatality from domestic bioterrorism was the 1973 murder of West Oakland school superintendent Dr. Marcus A. Foster, an African American, who was felled by a cyanide-tipped bullet from the arsenal of the Symbionese Liberation Army.22

The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.

As a result of the expectations created, every time a training fatality occurs, the public pressure on MINDEF and SAF commanders down the leadership chain takes on a very corrosive edge. This damages not just the SAF, but the institution of National Service too.

The infection fatality rate had not just a numerator (deaths) but also a denominator (infections). If you didn't know how many people had survived infection, you couldn't say how deadly the virus actually was.

Using the most conservative assumptions suggested by the cruise ship—an attack rate of 20 percent and a fatality rate of half of 1 percent—you wound up with 330,000 dead Americans.

It was just the human fatality of things, a cancer worse than blame, or hate or love.

Shanna was the first to go. And by "go" I mean die. And by "die" I mean get killed.

Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.

You can't do damage control dead.

It's a tragic fact to die in an accident

To this day I cannot understand how we became the conscious perpetrators of it. A strange fatality must have been driving us to it; for fate does not evade consciousness or will but engulfs them in its mechanism, so that we are able to accept, as in hypnotic trance, things that under normal circumstances would fill us with horror.

There howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you; under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronizing lee of churches. For by some curious fatality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice, so sinners, gentlemen, most abound in holiest vicinities.