“ When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death — that is heroism. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
- 663
“ All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 427
“ I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode. ”
- Hedy Lamarr- Copy
- 343
“ Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten. ”
- Andre Breton- Copy
- 851
“ Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. ”
- William Strunk Jr.- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. ”
- Bette Davis- Copy
- 3.2K
“ You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. ”
- Beverly Sills- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. ”
- Don Delillo- Copy
- 3.4K
“ No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 384
“ Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today. ”
- Thomas Gray- Copy
- 1K
“ All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure. ”
- Jean Paul Sartre- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure. ”
- John Haggai- Copy
- 801
“ Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, "I'm sorry.". ”
- Robert Schuller- Copy
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“ Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. ”
- Phyllis Schlafly- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 3.9K
“ It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. ”
- William Dean Howells- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 398
“ No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
- 3.3K
“ We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ”
- William James- Copy
- 3.8K
“ We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them. ”
- Dr. Jess Lair- Copy
- 3.8K
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