Quotes About Fatality

Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

he'd died when the volcano erupted.

Few men get killed. Most of those who meet sudden ends get themselves killed.

And that obsession was only a shadow of the first one. Lately I wonder if it all goes back to the way you begin, and after that you love in that way, or go sleepwalking after something that evokes the luxury, fatality, sorrow, whatever the strong taste was, of that first one.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.

the English lost at most 500 men, including only two lords, the Earl of Suffolk and the Duke of York. Shakespeare's Exeter gives these two noblemen a brilliant chivalric epitaph; history, however, adds its usual sour note by pointing out that York perished, not by the sword, but by suffocation or a heart attack after falling off his horse. He was quite fat.

Statistics are information, not condemnation. The objective, when you have cancer and want to combat fatality, is to make sure you find yourself in the long tail of the curve.

The combination of his traveling position, his drug intake, and his already weakened heart probably killed him.

How simple death without weapons was. How safe for the killer. ("Mind Over Murder")

I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation, fatality, and could only end one way now. The present was numbness, that could feel nothing. Like Novocaine needled into your heart. What was there in all the dimensions of time for me? ("Life Is Weird Sometimes" first chapter of unpublished novel THE LOSER)

Just as it was in Kempe's time, the rate of removals today has less to do with the literal rate of physical abuse or neglect and more to do with a fickle public intermittently enraged by what they hear on the news. When kids die at the hands of their parents, headlines put child protection agencies under intense and sudden scrutiny. Investigators increase their removals, hoping to avoid another high-profile fatality.

There's a reason he fell became synonymous for he died. Losing your feet on a battlefield is an all-but-certain death sentence.

you didn't intend to hit him, but you did hit him and he died as a result. Unfortunately in this case, whenever that happens there are consequences.

The cause of death was drowning.

The movie's not over till everybody's dead.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.

Being killed is a very different thing from dying.

of liver disease in countries where pork is more popular? It appears so. The relationship between national per capita pork consumption and deaths from liver disease correlates as tightly as per capita alcohol consumption and liver fatalities. Each pork chop consumed per capita

They defined one benefit of a higher speed limit as a quicker commute to and from work, calculated the economic benefit of the time saved (valued at an average wage of $20 an hour) and divided the savings by the number of additional deaths. They discovered that, for the convenience of driving faster, Americans were effectively valuing human life at the rate of $1.54 million per life. That was the economic gain, per fatality, of driving ten miles an hour faster.15

The fatality study wasn't an intellectual exercise. It was intended to be a wake-up call for the nation. Tornadoes are dangerous and deadly, and they can happen anywhere. And tornado fatalities are likely to be higher outside Tornado Alley. In the twister-prone states, people are better educated about storms and shelters.

But it was all the same choice, every time. The choice between the one death and all the little ones.