Doom Quotes - Page 9

• On the four aces doom'd to roll.

  Charles Churchill

  Four, Aces

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.102

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• Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.

  Julie Powell

  Food, Challenges, Cooking

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• Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Frustration, Economic, Millions

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.249, Courier Corporation

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• All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.

  Chris Matthews

  Fall, Guy, Hollywood

  "Joe Eszterhas". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Law, Forever

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.442

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• Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

  Maureen Dowd

  Believe, Rumor, Journalism

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• If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

  Nina Conti

  Thinking, Flu, Gigs

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• Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

  Richard Bentall

  Children, Childhood, Helping

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't recognize that there's a zone of natural affection midway between the inner, or family one, and the outer, or all-humanity one. I suppose they are somehow short of a zone themselves and they seem to get vexed... The common man knows better, just as he'd know better if some philosopher told him he ought not to make invidious distinctions by feeding his own children in preference to others. But of course he can't explain; he just ... goes on feeding the kids.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Children, Kids, Men

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• When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.

  Gabe Newell

  Texas, Years, Guy

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to 'tongue controllers'". Interview with Ed Fries, venturebeat.com. July 25, 2012.

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• When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Judgement, Necks

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• Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Brother, Space, Mad

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• Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Years, Intellectual, Poverty

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: The strenuous life”

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• It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Evil, Literature, Glorious

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• Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.

  Kate Simon

  Women, Home, Knowing

  Kate Simon (1986). “A Wider World: Portraits in Adolescence”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Columbus's doom-burdened caravels
  Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

  J. C. Squire

  Land, Sailing, Columbus

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• I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

  Depressing, Doom And Gloom, Giving

  "Engaging Youth: Tools for Change". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

  William S. Burroughs

  Sacrifice, Color, Tree

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

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• I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.

  Owen Wilson

  Thinking, Ideas, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You woke in the morning with the weight of doom on your head. You lay with eyes shut wondering why you dreaded the day; was it a debt, was it a lost love? -and then you remembered the nightmare....This was no time for beauty, for love, or private future....There was no future; everyone waited, marked time, waited. For what?

  Dawn Powell

  Morning, Lost Love, Eye

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• Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Years

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I was talking to Cecil [Castellucci], who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at stuff, but it's an honor that there's a legacy of people who still keep it in their heads. It's really cool!

  Gerard Way

  Writing, Issues, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The community should develop better support systems for saving or restoring potentially healthy marriages.But we should also help people who decide to divorce have healthier partings.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Children, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.

  Hilton Als

  Beautiful, Country, Song

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• Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.

  Whit Stillman

  Crazy, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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