Fatal Quotes

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by standing on her nose. That would have been fatal to our hopes.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

Lack of charisma can be fatal.

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

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

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

Second guesses in putting are fatal.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.