Quotes About Fatal

It seems as if those of high ability cannot resist some extra, dangerous stroke of cleverness, which results in a fatal flaw and begins a slow decline to evil.

This was your fatal flaw–you always had a backup plan. You were never willing to risk everything.

And though in the clockless, temperature-controlled casino night, words like 'day' and 'Christmas' were fairly meaningless constructs, 'happiness,' amidst the loudly clinked glasses, didn't seem quite such a doomed or fatal idea.

Perhaps he was a wicked man, as Robert Falcon had said, but he had the saving grace of laughter, could even laugh at his own fatal predicament, and he had been so full of life.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

I had a little pride, as I have said, and that was good. More would have been fatal.

Sexy and deadly, just the way I like them.

Nature is always waiting, watching for you to lose faith so she can insert her fatal stitch

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

It has occurred to me subsequently that this moment of her stroke cannot have come as a complete surprise to my grandmother, that she had possibly even foreseen it well before it occurred, lived with the thought that it would happen. She had not known, of course, when this fatal moment would come—of that she was unsure, as lovers are when a similar sense of uncertainty leads them to base unreasonable hopes and, in turn, unjustified suspicions on the fidelity of their mistresses.

In an age that persecutes deviants, you can yet lose your life for being the possessor of a dangerous or unacceptable story. Words are powerful, which means that words can also be fatal.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

Why do the wicked attract us so? What hint of glamour, hope for material gain, or assumption of fleeting happiness do they radiate, that we can find ourselves so easily, fatally taken in?

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

He can be lethal death.

... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

All the electronic devices are powered by white smoke. When smoke goes out, device is dead.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Excusing our momentary lapses as an outlier event triggers a self-indulgent inconsistency—which is fatal for change.