Doom Quotes

• I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Doom And Gloom, Differences

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Hook, Peter

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• Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Life Is Too Short, Optimistic

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• Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.

  Eric Alterman

  Wiping Out, Looks, Trends

  "Out of Print" by Eric Alterman, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2008.

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• He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Hero, Rooms, Prison

  1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Execution of Montrose', stanza14.

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• My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Disappointment, Night, Land

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.

  John Romero

  Thinking, People, Scary

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• I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don't think it's right for me

  Sid Meier

  Fate, Thinking, Games

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• A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Leadership, Running, People

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

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Life, Science, Doom And Gloom

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• In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

  Rosamund Pike

  Fate, Games, Computer

  "Bodice ripper" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.

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• 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.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Doom And Gloom, Hatred

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• The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fate, Dirt, Sides

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.411, Lulu.com

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

  Pierre Corneille

  Agreement, Agree, Aspire

  "Polyeucte". Book by Pierre Corneille, act IV, scene II, 1642.

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• No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

  George Eliot

  Love, Evil, Effort

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3402, Delphi Classics

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• And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.

  Rosamund Pike

  Smile, Fate, Pride

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• So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

  Al Goldstein

  Fate, Destiny, Testosterone

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• Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life Is Too Short, Trying, Want

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Apr 26, 2014

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• It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

  William Dean Howells

  Fate, Voice, Soul

  William Dean Howells (2015). “The March Family Trilogy”, p.509, Simon and Schuster

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• If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Fate, Hard Times, Thinking

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• I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

  Maurice Strong

  Taken, Fate, Prophet

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• 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.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Passion, Fate

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

  Bill Joy

  Fate, Domain

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• Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

  Richard Dooling

  Fate, Animal, Men

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• I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

  Garth Ennis

  Character, Fate, Stories

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