Quotes About Fatal

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

that the mistakes committed by ignorance in a virtuous disposition, would never be of such fatal consequence to the public weal, as the practices of a man, whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and had great abilities to manage, to multiply, and defend his corruptions.

In a life, it is the in-betweens that are fatal. It is the indecisiveness that killed his son.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Every angel is terrible. And yet, alas I welcome you, almost fatal birds of the soul, knowing about you. ... If the archangel came now, the perilous one, from the back of the stars but one step lower and toward us, our own high beating heart would slay us. Who are you? You early successes, spoiled darlings of creation...

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Unsuspecting people make a fatal mistake when they give their allegiance to a system of thought by focusing on its benefits while they ignore its systemic contradictions.

Ignorance is fatal.

Garrett, said Stendahl, do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

Garret? -llamó Stendahl en voz baja. Garret calló-. ¿Sabe usted por qué le hago esto? Porque quemó los libros del señor Poe sin haberlos leído. Le bastó la opinión de los demás. Si hubiera leído los libros, habría adivinado lo que yo le iba a hacer, cuando bajamos hace un momento. La ignorancia es fatal, señor Garret.

Ignorance is fatal, M. Garrett

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

The whole difficulty of the spontaneity for which the tantrika longs, whether Shaivist or Buddhist, is to succeed in seizing the moment with the same lively agility with which one would seize a venomous snake. Hesitation can be fatal.

hamartia in his character. The fatal flaw

Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

CATÁSTROFE Y RUINA UNIVERSAL: EXPERIMENTO LETAL

In retelling these events, I have fought against a tendency to sentimentalize Julian, to make him seem very saintly—basically to falsify him—in order to make our veneration of him seem more explicable; to make it seem something more, in short, than my own fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good.

There are many things not called poison which can kill a man,

Women, in my experience, if they once reach the determination to commit suicide, usually wish to reveal the state of mind that led to the fatal action. They covet the limelight.

was suspicious, had always been suspicious, of mercy—too much mercy, that is to say. Too much mercy, as he knew from former experience both in Belgium and this country, often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

Funerals are absolutely fatal for a man of your age.

If you people only knew how fatally easy it is to poison someone by mistake, you wouldn't joke about it.