Fatal Quotes

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

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

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

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.

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.

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.