Doom Quotes - Page 13

• The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.

  Lin Yutang

  Simple, Light, Age

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.4, Read Books Ltd

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• And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.

  John Milton

  Redemption, Hell, Lost

  John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.191

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• Man United, for all the doom and gloom, they're still the best club on the planet, they've got the best supporters and the best manager... United will always be United. To me, they are still the best and whatever disappointments they're having at the moment, don't worry, they'll bounce back. They always do.

  Roy Keane

  Disappointment, Doom And Gloom, Worry

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• Be born anywhere, little embryo 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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Sins Not, Shadow, Novelists

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• Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.

  Julian Simon

  Believe, Hands, Evil

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• Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated on their prophecies of doom and quagmire. Then we looked up to see, on television, correspondents actually embedded with our troops, reporting quick advances, one- sided firefights, melting opposition and, finally, welcoming crowds.

  Dick Morris

  Morning, New York, Reading

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• Where beats a heart within a human breast,
  There be Thou present, and Thy power adored!
  And oh! since all one common race are doom'd
  To run, and one eternal goal to reach,
  May Thy prime attribute each bosom warm
  With tender sympathy and truth; may man
  To man be link'd to man in fellowship of soul,
  Till one vast chain of Love embrace the world!

  Robert Montgomery

  Running, Heart, Men

  "The Omnipresence of the Deity: And Other Poems".

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• But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong,
  Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

  Edmund Spenser

  Justice, Doe, Lasts

  "The Faerie Queene, Book Five".

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

  Andy Milonakis

  Crazy, Boxes

  "Kickin' it with Andy Milonakis". Interview with Bethonie Butler, ew.com. September 18, 2007.

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• Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Community, Liberty, Principles

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.323

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• Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
  The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

  Homer

  Men, Heaven, Greek

  Homer (1805). “The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc”, p.165

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• The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Eye, Opportunity, Hands

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1867). “Pendennis”, p.463

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• The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

  Margaret Mead

  Creativity, Men, Artist

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• It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Errors, Evil, Healthy

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• 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!

  Alfred the Great

  Rich, Poor, Foe

  The Doom Book (Legal Code of Ælfred the Great), 893.

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• Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.

  W. H. Auden

  Fate, Dark, Sea

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.46, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Should, Young

  "Twice Told Tales". Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1837, 1851.

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• Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.

  Clive James

  Men, Car, Trying

  Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape

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• ‎To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

  Harvey Dorfman

  Frustration, Focus, Energy

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• Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.

  Ronald Reagan

  Past

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• We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Lying, Taken, Hero

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Well of Tears”, p.346, Pan Macmillan

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• [All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy. (pg. 44, "The Unsettling of America")

  Wendell Berry

  Order, Sweat, America

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• Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Taken, Men, Fairy

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• Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book, isn't it?' Just because I'm Jewish doesn't mean I've memorized the Old Testament.' It's the Writing on the Wall. "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end; thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." It's a portent of doom--it means the end of an empire.

  Cassandra Clare

  Art, Wall, Book

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Doom And Gloom, People, Internet

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