Doomed Quotes - Page 11

• A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

  Francoise Sagan

  Jealousy, Dying, Affair

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• No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.

  Nora Ephron

  Sex, Men, Stories

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• And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, White

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.551, Modern Library

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• I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  America, Share, Gloomy

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• Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

  Anne Frank

  People, Holocaust, Suffering

  Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

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• In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of government.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Sex, Rights, Government

  "An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting: At the Presidential Election in Nov., 1872" by Susan B. Anthony, Rochester N.Y.: Daily democrat & chronicle book print, 1874.

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• It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to fail and to bring down with it all the humanitarian tendencies I personally believe in--all the while acting as a mould on which its obverse the fascist mentality is made--and this recent massacre is certainly a sign of Stalinism's weakness not of its strength. None of that has anything to do with Marx's work--but it certainly does influence one's attitude towards a given political party.

  John Dos Passos

  Attitude, Party, Believe

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• Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Past, Gold

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.195, Anchor

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• Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Men, Fire, Objectivity

  Stanislaw Lem (1983). “Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.

  Grace Hartigan

  Art, Ideas, Trying

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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• I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?

  Alex Tabarrok

  Attitude, Thinking, Views

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• Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

  Charles Dickens

  Loss, Names, Ships

  Charles Dickens (1861). “The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.232

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• You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if your money “blueprint” isn't set for success, you're financially doomed.

  T. Harv Eker

  Skills, World, Blueprints

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• The Illuminati bankers rule the world through debt, which is money they create out of nothing. They need world government to ensure no country defaults or tries to overthrow them. As long as private bankers, instead of governments, create money the human race is doomed. These bankers and their allies have bought everything and everyone.

  Henry Makow

  Country, World Government, Race

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• It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

  Karen Essex

  Sex, Respectable, Derogatory

  Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.146, Anchor

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• I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

  Mary Karr

  Inconvenient

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• Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Years, Youth

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• This is the thing I've never understood: If someone is going to hell for being gay or being a Jew or a Muslim or having an abortion, then what are you worried about? You don't need to try and convert these people or try and save them. If you really believe in your religion, these people are already doomed, so stop worrying about them.

  Lewis Black

  Believe, Gay, Worry

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

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• The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die

  Roberto Unger

  Self, World, Immediacy

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• These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Honesty, Successful

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Years, Two

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.10, Vintage

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• the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Work, Office

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.21, Vintage

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• I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

  David Nicholls

  Night, Romance, Atmosphere

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• I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

  Bryan Batt

  Lonely, Gay, People

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• A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

  Joy Browne

  Life Changing, Mean, Dedication

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