Doomed Quotations

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.'

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.

In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.

Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can't spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society.

At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail.

Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran).

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.

In my early to mid-20s, a fear of confrontation made it difficult for me to end relationships in a mature or even quasi-sane way. Instead, I would hang on resentfully, praying that my doomed beau would end things first and spare me the displeasure. To add hindrance to hang-up, the men I chose were usually just as stoic as I was.

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.

Portfolio management teams are doomed to failure without adequate support from senior executives. Internal struggles will plague portfolio management groups until their corporate cultures accept their strategic value.

I guess I'm doomed to be the bad guy forever. It doesn't get any more 'bad' than Satan.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

One piece that looked like it was doomed - we were going to shoot it in this hotel hallway, and it was just my character musing that maybe this was just the beginning of something, maybe we were on our way out of obscurity or something, and then we were setting up to do it - and we just had to get this other shot.

No one in the schools knows what it's all about. It's doomed to failure if you don't involve people and let them know what's going on.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

She was doomed from the start. I can't imagine Gale isn't tremendously disappointed.

I would say that the first quarter of next year probably has already been doomed by this episode,

I don't care about seeding, they can seed us anywhere. We just wanted to get to the NCAA Tournament and play the best that we can play. People who complain about seeds probably are doomed to lose very quickly. It's like complaining about the officials. You can't do anything about them, so you do the best you can.

Budgets are doomed to fail because people cut out all of the fun in their life. People need to have leeway.

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

If the aircraft lost cabin pressure, either in the cockpit or the cabin, effectively everybody would be doomed within a short space of time.

Had this little lion lived, he would have been doomed to a life of extreme confinement and boredom.

'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'

I think the Chapter 7 route is dead on arrival. The US can keep talking about it, but our own policies have doomed it.

I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever.

Well at least we are healthy. But once again we were doomed with a slow start in the first and third quarters. That doesn't cut it. We dug ourselves a hole we couldn't get out of.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

When you're saddled with the fact that it's not low-level offenders and there's no accountability, it's doomed for failure.

Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.

I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

you're doomed at being you.

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

All of us. All of us. We're doomed.

To be of the 'fallen' is to surrender to this material realm and all that it has to offer which is doomed to decay and die, but to be of the 'Light' is to surrender to the spirit and that it has to offer which is endless and eternal. Jesus Christ is the Light and the Way. Trust in Him and only Him.

The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.?

There is no question that films that we would have considered viable just a few seasons ago are too risky to undertake these days, ... Small films are smaller than ever and titles that would have done decently a few years back would almost certainly be doomed to abject failure these days.

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

was being looked at in a way that had him doomed from the start.

Every other carrier that competed with them picked up the pace. They profoundly misunderstood the competitive response. They were doomed from day one.

A treasure beyond price for fans of both the classic Hammett novel and the three (that's right, three) film versions of the doomed quest for a black bird. An incredible amalgam of photos, memos, letters, reviews, whatever, this will make fans of the book or the film gasp as one unexpected delight succeeds another. With this book, wonders really do never cease.

At the end of the day, if we don't give people in any business some sense that they have consistent rules ... then we're creating a regulatory system that is doomed to failure.

These programs are hurting me more than helping me. I think we were just doomed from the get-go.

Write a lot and read a lot and expect to give over your life completely to the passion of writing, ... I think if people are not willing to do that, they are forever doomed to be amateurs.

We are doomed because of where we're at.

Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.

A U.N. that sees itself as a check on the sole superpower is doomed to fail. We would rather be a vehicle through which the U.S. works with the rest of the world.

You've probably never thought about it before unless you happen to write for a living, but professional writers are doomed to spend most of their waking hours sitting by themselves at a desk, staring at a blank computer screen and waiting for lightning to strike.

As a society, we're doomed to living with depressing news. But we can take a little happy pill when we go shopping. A little color makes us feel better.

Embalm, v.: To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus.

There was a cultural clash that didn't recognize the absolute inherent science of preparing for a disaster. Any time you break that cycle ... you're doomed to failure.

The United States stands alone in this anti-China farce. The motion against China was naturally doomed to fail.

If I were spiteful, I would remind you that it is only fitting that a twisted, narcissistic psychopath, obsessed with public attention, will soon have his world reduced to an isolated solitary existence in an 80-square-foot cell doomed to languish away the rest of your miserable life, alone,

If you don't know your history, you're doomed to repeat it. Part of it is also to learn from good practices as well. It's also to recognize some good aspects that have fallen by the wayside.

I'm doomed romantically. I try to find a formula for everything in life, and that includes romance, but my methods haven't proven successful because there is no formula in romance.

The airline industry has a horrendous history in Chapter 11. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat mistakes, and in the airline industry no one learns from history and always repeats mistakes.

I really believe Florida, more than any state, has not gotten hold of its erosion problems. Florida beaches are either doomed or the state is going to have a huge nourishment bill in the future.

In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.

If you stand pat and don't evolve, I don't care if you're first place or third place, you're doomed to extinction, ... (Evening newscasts) play an incredibly important role in America, but we're talking about the No. 1 nightly newscast in America and pushing it into an important new realm.

If you're an artist and you're on Twitter, you are doomed to mediocrity.

The separatist activities of Lee Teng-hui and those like him go against the aspirations of the whole Chinese people, including Taiwan compatriots, and is condemned and doomed to failure.

The French protectionist model is doomed to failure. Better to follow the examples from London and Berlin.

The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.

The evacuation of New Orleans doomed these animals to a fate of dehydration and starvation. We rescued people, but we left their pets behind to die. Amazingly, we are finding more alive every day, but after three weeks we are hitting the critical hour.

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

We are doomed to coexist.

It's something schools are really lacking. You know the saying, 'if you don't know history, you're doomed to repeat it'.

They knew that their love of hunting was doomed unless they maintained a core population of birds. Teddy Roosevelt is the best example. He was a hunter right up there with the best of them.

It was doomed to fail from the very beginning because it's a double standard, because it provides exactly the wrong incentives. It provides incentives for snoops and snitches under this policy.

I am doomed or fortunate to stick to what I do best.

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

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

Some of you are doomed to be artists.

If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

A nation is doomed not because of its corrupt officials and undisciplined citizens, but because of its people who refused to move.

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

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

Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'

If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness...

Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part... Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Who, doomed to go in company with Pain,And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other.

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

Drunkards are doomed to hell, so men declare, Believe it not, 'tis but a foolish scare; Heaven will be empty as this hand of mine, If none who love good drink find entrance there

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

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

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

All men have poetry in their hearts, and it is necessary for them, as much as possible, to express their feelings. For this they must have a medium, moving and pliant, which can refreshingly become their own, age after age. All great languages undergo change. Those languages which resist the spirit of change are doomed and will never produce great harvests of thought and literature. When forms become fixed, the spirit either weakly accepts its imprisonment or rebels. All revolutions consists of the "within" fighting against invasion from "without"... All great human movements are related to some great idea.