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Quotes About Fatal

El amor es un veneno. Un veneno dulce, sí, pero un veneno que mata.
~ George R.R. Martin
His axe took her in the back of the head.
~ George R.R. Martin
[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
~ George Santayana
For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.
~ George W. Bush
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
~ Lee Loevinger
Sex was a powerful tool to use or have used against you. Both of these women had wanted to wield it, to control it. In the end, it had killed them.
~ J.D. Robb
Una debilidad no reconocida puede resultar mortífera.
~ J.R. Ward
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
I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
~ Sylvia Plath
Death is uncommon, fortunately, because we are durable, and fatal mishaps are rare, but it makes difficult the study of anatomy, especially since many of the accidents serious enough to cause death leave the deceased's remains too damaged for study.
~ Ted Chiang
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
~ Giorgio de Chirico
When Jackson used that particular tone of voice, men died, pure and simple.
~ Christine Feehan
Only thing is, a soldier threw a pitcher and hit him on the temple. Killed him instantly.
~ Christopher Paolini
Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,--an illness given by the hand of man!
~ Victor Hugo
Here I must add that, in each social crisis, of all scaffolds, the political one is the most abominable, the most fatal, the most mischievous, the most necessary to extirpate. In revolutionary times, beware of the first head that falls. It excites the sanguinary appetite of the mob.
~ Victor Hugo
It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping up afresh
~ Victor Hugo
That there should be so great a concentration of vitality, so large a world contained within the mind of a single man, must in the end have been fatal to civilisation.
~ Victor Hugo
He seemed to realize she was staring at him, because the cursing stopped. "You cut me," he said. His voice was pleasant. British. Very ordinary. He looked at his hand with critcal interest. "It might be fatal." Tessa looked at him with wide eyes. "Are you the Magister?" He tilted his hand to the side. Blood ran down it, spattering the floor. "Dear me, massive blood loss. Death could be imminent.
~ Cassandra Clare
But it's funny how you can take something that turns out to be fatal and classify it as not worth fixing.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
We already know which genes in one chromosome are responsible for Tay-Sachs disease, which afflicts Jews with a fatal disorder. That already permits us to do genetic counseling of young couples with the gene who may want to marry: 'Since you both carry a defective chromosome, better not have children.
~ James A. Michener
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
~ Wendell Phillips
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
~ David Brin
All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.
~ Theodor W. Adorno