Fatal Quotes

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.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Second guesses in putting are 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.

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.

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.

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.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

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

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.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

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

Ideas are fatal to caste.