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Quotes About Fatal

Smoke crack and die
~ Dr. Seuss
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
~ Zhuangzi
Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,' snapped Lorsen. 'Indeed,' said Cosca, significantly. 'The cock-rot is rarely fatal.
~ Joe Abercrombie
And yet I fear you; for you are fatal then, When your eyes roll so. Alas! why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your very frame: These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope, They do not point on me." Shakspeare.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.
~ Anne Bishop
Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had been reorganized by color and size. Shortly thereafter, the decorator met with a fatal automobile accident. I confess that when this story was told, everyone around the dinner table concurred that justice had been served.
~ Anne Fadiman
They could not listen. They could not stop. What they did was the death dance. What they did would do them in.
~ Anne Sexton
Asemeni tuturor indivizilor cu o mare mobilitate mental?,am o iubire organic? ?i fatal? pentru fixitate.Detest orice via?? nou? ?i orice loc necunoscut.
~ Fernando Pessoa
When you are defending your title at any point in your career, a loss can be fatal.
~ Daniel Jacobs
Reverence is fatal to literature.
~ E. M. Forster
Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat into the same arguments and begin the battle anew.
~ Douglas Alexander
It is fatal for a capitalist government to have principles. It must be opportunistic in the best sense of the word, living by accommodation and good sense. If a monarchical, plutocratic or other analogous form of government has principles, it will fall.
~ Robert Skidelsky
The neck shot is best," I commented, "if chance allows. If shot through the heart or lungs they will often run a mile or more before dropping.
~ Louis L'Amour
was sixty feet off, but the bullet caught him in the top of the head, killing him instantly.
~ Louis L'Amour
She was always left feeling like a murderer. Because the messenger becomes the murderer. Until the fatal words are spoken, the loved one concerned is still alive, waking, sleeping, going about his business, making telephone calls, writing letters, going for walks, breathing, seeing. It was the telling that killed.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
I hate and fear snakes, because if you look into the eyes of any snake you will see that it knows all and more of the mystery of man's fall, and that it feels all the contempt that the Devil felt when Adam was evicted from Eden. Besides which its bite is generally fatal, and it twists up trouser legs. (The Return Of Imray)
~ Rudyard Kipling
What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name? How well, with what fatal results, religion erects totems, and how willing we are to kill for them! And when we've done it often enough, the deadening of affect that results makes it easier to do it again. So India's problem turns out to be the world's problem. What happened in India has happened in God's name. The problem's name is God.
~ Salman Rushdie
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It was in this room and at the apothecary Glazer's that Sainte-Croix made his experiments; but in accordance with poetical justice, the manipulation of the poisons proved fatal to the workers themselves. The apothecary fell ill and died; Martin was attacked by fearful sickness, which brought, him to death's door. Sainte-Croix was unwell, and could not even go out, though he did not know what was the matter.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I picked up a rare disease called conscience .... That can often turn fatal.
~ Alfred Bester
love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage of by removal of the patient from the influences under which he/she incurred the disorder. This disease, like Caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than the patient.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Conscience can be painful but so can the cock-rot. A grown-up should suffer his afflictions privately and not allow them to become an inconvenience for friends and colleagues.' 'Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,' snapped Lorsen. 'Indeed,' said Cosca, significantly. 'The cock-rot is rarely fatal.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
~ Matt Bors
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
~ James Russell Lowell