Doom Quotations

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.

I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom - 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read about politicians in the newspaper, the vengefulness starts. By mid-morning, the anxiety is kicking in.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee generated by the doom of an implacable enemy, but thrill germinated by the real possibilities that the future held for freedom.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

MF Doom is like so out-of-the-box and just crazy.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that Mother Earth is destined for doom in December of 2012.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Now that's not a doom and gloom statement. it's not something anyone should get upset about,

If we didn't have a new product to sell right now, we could just sit here and be doom and gloom. There's never been more new products to sell, and that's lifting our boat big time ... it's a great time for this business.

On the four aces doom'd to roll.

I would think any team at this point in time, given where we are, would be pretty weak if they let these games affect them. Because we're still there. We can make up for these last three days if we play well on the road. I'm positive, man. I feel good about my guys. No doom and gloom. We're looking forward.

I don't think it spells doom on an agreement.

I don't want to be killed, I don't want to be kidnapped, I don't want to be hurt. But I don't have a personal sense of doom every time I exit my house.

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

Going by the game stats we give up another big inning. Walks and timely hitting by them pretty well spelled doom for us. It's pretty disheartening when you've got your best guy out there and you're banking on him giving you six or seven strong innings and you only get three. We just feel like he was forced out of the game early with walks. I won't say with control, I'll say with walks.

If India takes a step forward, Pakistan will respond by two, ... Let us both prove the pundits of gloom and doom wrong.

Tetris will help JAMDAT expand its market share internationally, especially in Asia and Latin America, ... And exclusive rights for DOOM and SOCOM could help them in Europe since that market is more action oriented.

I think there's a little negativity in this town because they don't look at themselves as winners. It's doom and gloom, there's no doubt about that. They need some sunlight.

It does get wearisome to hear the prophets of doom say we're on the way out, because it's just not true. It's shallow thinking.

I think that's what we need is the optimism and not all the gloom and doom that can come out of the situation that we have right now.

I think investors should strongly invested, ... They should realize that doom and gloom and all of this talk of recession is typical of major market lows. I think they should realize that the average decline within these long-term 'super bull' markets is 19 percent. And we've been down 27-to-28 percent. It's a great time to buy.

It continues to defy all the expectations of doom in the housing market. Demand for housing still remains quite strong and this year will be a record year for single-family construction.

I would not be gloom and doom because it is not at all gloom and doom.

Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

We're approaching or hitting the tipping point. The dire consequences of doom and gloom have proven false.

We want the best for him. We want him to be as healthy and happy as soon as possible. But it's out of our control. With a veteran group, you realize that more than doom and gloom.

Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.

To be all gloom and doom about what happened is to miss what New Orleans is all about.

This spells doom for the retirement security of, particularly, older employees.

The prophets of doom are prophets of doom. Their prophecies are doomed,

We're not doom and gloom, but we've done enough research to know that there are enough disasters that are like a time bomb that is ticking. This is in the best interest of the public.

We are not forecasting a recession, but there is some truth to the notion that negative news can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. If companies expect demand to slacken, they scale back production. And if consumers expect doom and gloom, they scale back spending. That's just the way it works.

We're going to be talking about trade, from baskets and beads to beaver. We've got a section on women's work. Lewis and Clark thought native American women lived a life of drudgery and doom when that is not the case.

The fact that a year passed before the murderer was arrested or indicted, there was this sort of doom hanging over our heads. No one knew who it was or if he'd be back.

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.

Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom.

Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels....

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

We are working internally on a completely new project, but we haven't made any firm plans yet for the future of the Wolf, Doom and Quake franchises. I would enjoy doing a DS or PSP game, but at this point I can't imagine having the time to be seriously involved in it.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love.

Could you imagine anyone considering to bring a business into Carnegie? Or buying a home in Carnegie with all of the gloom and doom portrayed by our local newspaper?

I've been told they want Dr. Doom to come back for the sequel, and I am contracted to do a couple more,

It would be easy to get caught up with the defeats to India in the one-day series, but when you look back on the tour as a whole it is far from being all doom and gloom.

To me it's not doom and gloom. I'm really pleased that we were running with them. We'll be fine. We have to get ready for Hoover.

Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!

There is definitely room for improvement, but I don't want people to think this is all doom and gloom. A lot of students are coming out of high school very well prepared and masterful of their education. ... We do a pretty good job in this state, the system is not broken, but it can be improved and it needs to be improved if we are going to compete in today's world and tomorrow's future.

Radio faces an uncertain future, but doom is not around the corner. It's just over the horizon.

Rather than the doom and gloom we've been hearing, the consumer hasn't packed it in, and Christmas sales will be reasonably good.

While it may be difficult to understand why cities and even entire states would doom themselves to insolvency by undertaking these obligations, the answer is simple: Democratic politicians, who have near-total political control of California and of America's biggest cities, support this massive transfer of wealth to public employees.

Americans - especially young Americans - are an optimistic people. Despite the gloom and doom in the world, and their own belief that peace on Earth is not in sight, we believe our own lives are getting better.

Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, because humor gets in the way of messages of doom or struggle.

There's so much doom and gloom in semiconductors, any little prayer of hope will be well-received.

There's not been this doom and gloom over the top of our heads. I think our team has been supported well by our base of fans out there. I just don't feel bad about what we're doing right now. The topic your talking about remains and has been dormant. It's just not something we concentrate on.

There's no gloom and doom here. All of us have been through tough times before.

This a possible route by which the virus could...gain a foothold in the human population. But it's not a doom or gloom story...I find it encouraging. Here's a possible avenue by which the virus can make the switch, and we should look out for it.

This is a maintenance budget that provides the current level of services that we offer now. This budget is not all doom and gloom because there are some things within it that we should be excited about, but we felt that if further cuts were made, they would have a direct effect on our classrooms and town services like police and fire.

I know people are going to think it's all doom and gloom, two bad losses, but we shouldn't be down 2-1 going into the third period. Forget about the third period, we shouldn't have been down, but that's the way hockey is, unfortunately. But we have to try to come to work and figure out how to take control of the game with that power play and until we do that it's going to be a dogfight every night.

I know there's a lot of gloom and doom around at the moment, the silver lining for us is that we are going to be able to develop some players.

In the Teen Titans one year later we want to introduce like 20 mysteries and make them feel as fresh and new and exciting. I wanted to use the DOOM Patrol in the first arc. Tony Daniel does the art and you'll see that he stepped his game up big time.

Small towns usually make sure their places of doom disappear. But that's not the case here: In West Warwick, what used to be a tavern is now an ad hoc cemetery -- which is the role taverns play in most small towns, but not as obviously as this.

I'm really surprised something like this hasn't been done before, but RZA didn't even know who MF Doom was. With the crazy nature of the business right now, I think we'll see more collaborations like this.

Once the cloud lifted when we clinched, that black cloud of doom - hey, you know what, we've seen the white light,

It's not all doom and gloom. The Wind and Drano are the ones that could show some strength. But we have been fooled by good jack returns in the past.

It's been horribly grim this week. There's a high level of gloom and doom in the market and a low level of optimism.

Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean, Brood of Morgoth, or Bright Vala, Elda or Maia or Aftercomer, Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth, Neither law, nor love, nor league of swords, dread, nor danger, not doom Itself shall defend him from Feanor and Feanor's kin whoso hideth or hordeth, or in hand taketh, finding keepeth, or afar casteth a Silmaril. This swear we all: Death we will deal him ere day's ending. Woe unto the world's end! Our words hesar thou, Eru Allfather! To the everlasting Darkness doom us if our deed faileth. On the holy mountian hear in witness and our vow remember Manwe and Varda!

I didn't sense any doom and gloom. I don't think anybody is pie in the sky. This is less than an ideal situation, but I don't sense anybody packing it in.

It was pretty doom and gloom for a while.

I remember a sense of doom when our first record got in the top 20. It was conventional wisdom at the time that it would all be over in two years.

You were strangers before, but I'm here to tell you now you are friends of Utah, ... I appreciate the enthusiasm we hear today that is chasing down that doom and gloom.

The Freudian view that accomplished women are sexually men, or trying to be, has done more, I suspect, than any other misconception to doom women to fear of accomplishment and selfhood.

The doom and gloom scenarios about no growth in PCs this year have given way to expectations of 10 percent growth rates,

You don't want to be trying to sell half the company when management is out there talking about worse-case scenarios and doom and gloom. The government will have to postpone the sale if it doesn't clear up the uncertainty.

There's been so much doom and gloom around here. There is a rainbow at the end of the storm.

We're going through this pre-announcement period where all the gloom and all the doom and all the negative statements are being made.

They're not going to let that happen again. In order to get back at the administration, they're going to try to undermine the policy with constant gloom and doom and negative news.

I can't believe the doom and gloom expressed in some quarters,

I can't believe the doom and gloom which is being expressed in some quarters.

Be born anywhere, little embyro novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of salvation. Go out and be born among the gypsies or thieves or among happy workaday people who live in the sun and do not think about their souls.

I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.