Doomed Quotes

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.

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

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.