Doom Quotes - Page 12

• In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.

  Sarah Beeny

  Country, Home, Doom And Gloom

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• The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Wise, Mean

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Miracle in the World”, p.99, Bantam

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• I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

  Geneen Roth

  Wish

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, neer dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing.

  Mary Carolyn Davies

  Success, Kings, Winning

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• Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

  Chip Kidd

  Anticipation, Certainty

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• Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.

  Gary Snyder

  World, Might, Firsts

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• Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

  Nate Berkus

  Kids, Indiana, Fleas

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• To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Life

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.138, Lotus Press

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• When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

  Clarence Darrow

  Pain, Journey, Men

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• Doom 2 is just such a bigger, badder, better version of Doom

  John Romero

  Bigger, Versions

  YouTube Channel "organicjerk"/"Classic Doom 2 Preview/Trailer", www.youtube.com. January 25, 2006.

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• Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

  Ian Thorpe

  Doe, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Men, Mediocrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

  Jim Henson

  Views, Cynical, Trying

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

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• Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.

  Mitch McConnell

  Running, Government, Competition

  "McConnell: No gov't health insurance" by Carrie Budoff Brown, www.politico.com. March 4, 2009.

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• Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.

  Robert Browning

  Strength, Waste, Impart

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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• The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied

  Edward Jenks

  Principles, Unjust, Loses

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Queens, Halloween, Night

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• In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in the language of science fiction. Here, images of prosthetic subjects, zombies, cut-ups and armies of the medieval dead actually slip off the pages of literature to become the terminal hauntology of these technologized times. Technologized Desire is nothing less than a brilliant data screen of future memories. Read it well: it's a survival guide for bodies flatlined by the speed of accelerating technology.

  Arthur Kroker

  Memories, Army, Cutting

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• Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Self, Discipline, Talent

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• I kind of hate to be the voice of doom, but I just can't see how prices can't go down. I think people have actually forgotten that property prices can decrease. There's this feeling that they just won't fall, but, of course, that's not true.

  Sarah Beeny

  Hate, Fall, Thinking

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• Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.

  Jon Krakauer

  Believe, Self, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012

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• Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.

  Janet Morris

  Love, God, Men

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.358, Paradise Publishing

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• In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility and grandeur to the highest degree; it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Directed by the will of the master, the trombones can chant like a choir of priests, threaten, utter gloomy sighs, a mournful lament, or a bright hymn of glory; they can break forth into awe-inspiring cries and awaken the dead or doom the living with their fearful voices.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Religious, Powerful

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• All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

  June Jordan

  History, African American, Soul

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, Beacon Pr

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• This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?

  Ingmar Bergman

  People, Mind, Modern

  "Fictional character: Jöns". "The Seventh Seal", 1957.

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