Doomed Quotes - Page 17

• The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated.

  Haskell Wexler

  War, Media, Ideas

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In the wide middle of the spectrum are all the ambiguous and tragi-comic goings-on of our species.

  Catherine Wilson

  Compassion, Evil, Abuse

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Organization

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

  Malcolm X

  Race, White, Deeds

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!

  Sinclair Lewis

  Thinking, Laughing, Grace

  "The God-Seeker". Book by Sinclair Lewis. Chapter 3, 1949.

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• When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, White

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I guess I am doomed to remain an outsider to the end, lacking as I am the indispensable qualities of an academic insider: school loyalty, conformity to the procedure, and readiness to obey by the school-endorsed criteria of cohesion and consistency.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Loyalty, School, Consistency

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

  Cleve Jones

  Thinking, Movement, Benefits

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• The crazy thing about the entertainment industry now is that you can't do just one thing. If you're focusing in on just one thing you're pretty much doomed.

  Robbie Rist

  Crazy, Entertainment, You Re Pretty

  Source: www.teenagemutantninjaturtles.com

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• We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts at external aggression, when they fail, usually bring on areas of internal reform.

  Daniel Fried

  Russia, Effort, Reform

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

  Dar Williams

  Past, Divine Right, Hegemony

  Source: progressive.org

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• Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Ignorance, Cutting, Perfect

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• No, not under the vault of another sky, not under the shelter of other wings. I was with my people then, there where my people were doomed to be.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Sky, Wings, People

  "Requiem". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1963.

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• I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

  Drew Barrymore

  Hate, Voice, Phones

  "Gossip Girls". Interview with Judith Newman, www.marieclaire.com. February 4, 2009.

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• Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Teenage, Men

  "Ernie Harwell, in His Own Words" by Tyler Kepner, bats.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2010.

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• I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fall, Thinking, Leaving

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2002.

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• I honestly believe that people who never have children or never love a child are doomed to a sort of foolishness because it cant be described or explained, that love. I didnt know anything before I had him, and I havent learned anything since I lost him. Everything that isnt loving a child is just for show.

  Haven Kimmel

  Children, Believe, People

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• Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

  Daniel Handler

  Past, Repeats

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• Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Peace, Believe, Frustration

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.112, Wizards of the Coast

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• An organism at war with itself is doomed.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Organisms

  "Cosmos". TV Mini-Series, www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Kissing, Loving You, Feelings

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”, p.92, Penguin UK

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• I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years.... I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the bad and the good senses. That's an amazing company that is going to do a lot of good and bad things.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Orlando Sentinel, November 03, 2007.

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• Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Spiritual, Blessing, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 149, 1895.

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• Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

  Terry Eagleton

  Literary Theory, Method, Term

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons

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• Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic , you experience it from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Ocean, Epic, Journey

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