Quotes About Doomed

There was a time to take refuge in the arms of those you loved, and there was a time to stand up to great evil and be not bowed. If you didn't know the difference, then you were doomed to perish about two-thirds of the way through the story, when the narrative needed a jolt of violence and emotion.

I feel 'Ankahee' is a very honest film. It says that in a relationship where there are three people, everybody is doomed. Nobody comes out happy.

The children were kept by the priests for some weeks before their deaths (those kindergartens of doomed infants are difficult to contemplate).

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

However, all the methods of interventionism are doomed to failure. This means: the interventionist measures must needs result in conditions which from the point of view of their own advocates are more unsatisfactory than the previous state of affairs they were designed to alter. These policies are therefore contrary to purpose.

The ruins stood above the hissing traffic like some monument to doomed expectations.

From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest song in the world: 'We are the little black sheep who have gone astray . . . Baa baa baa . . . Gentlemen songsters off on a spree . . . Doomed from here to eternity . . .

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.

That is why those countries would endure and why America was doomed to fail.

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

And now he had bestowed the long-awaited honor upon the most unlikely of us, small and ungrateful and probably cursed.

But the nightmares were accurate enough: we are like a swarm of mosquitoes, crazy with thirst and doomed to be swatted.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit---doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to deadly penance, only short of death.

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

Roaches should never trust humans. We're all doomed.

Now you are dead, your heart throbbing too fast for the doctors at the veterans' hospital to keep the beat, their pill bottles rattling, maracas in a mambo for the doomed.

To put the matter bluntly, U.S. soldiers on Bataan and Corregidor showed themselves more stalwart than British imperial forces in Malaya and at Singapore, albeit likewise in a doomed cause. Brigadier

It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.

Or Einstein regenerated, living a life on top of the life he's already led, doomed by the accomplishments of his former self.

Oh well, it's over for you. Call the code at 2:03 p.m." My eyes widened in shock. "That's what they say when someone dies." "Exactly." He nodded. "Woman have fallen in love with me after staring like that for only thirty seconds and I think you just took a full minute. You're doomed.