Doomed Quotes

• That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fate, Differences, Generations

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.589, Simon and Schuster

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• If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around the Reagan revolution, where somehow people genuinely think that he slashed government and slashed the deficit and that the recovery was because of all these massive tax cuts, as opposed to a shift in interest-rate policy - if we can’t describe that effectively, then we’re doomed to keep on making more and more mistakes.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Recovery, Cutting

  "President Obama Weighs His Economic Legacy" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2016.

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• It didn't help matters that I was shy and wore glasses. I was never one to stand out in the crowd. I liked to stay in corners. And I was happiest when I was alone reading. That and the good grades I got in school had doomed any chance of being popular with my peers. So it was a foregone conclusion that boys like Hardy were never going to take notice of me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Reading, School, Boys

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.367, St. Martin's Press

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  Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Homer

  Beautiful, Rage From The Iliad, Chaos

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press

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• Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

  Sidney Hook

  Teacher, Fate, Hook

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• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fate, Principles, Action

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

  Errol Morris

  Past, Infancy Is, History

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• The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

  Huey Newton

  Fate, Men, Political

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

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  You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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• Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Fate, Feminism, Human Nature

  Phyllis Schlafly (2003). “Feminist fantasies”, Spence Pub

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• There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

  Scott Adams

  Idiot, Dilbert, Danger

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.439, Penguin

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• The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

  Arthur Miller

  Apples, Tree, Stuck

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Fate, Blow

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• That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.

  Ian Mcewan

  Foundation, Doe, Good Sense

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• States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

  Antisthenes

  Men, Good Man, States

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 5),

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• Some of you are doomed to be artists.

  Martha Graham

  Artist

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• Success only breeds a new goal

  Bette Davis

  Goal, Aries, New Goal

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

  James Zogby

  Politician, Danger, Closed Minded

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• There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Danger, Closed Minded

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• There is nothing more dangerous than security.

  Francis Walsingham

  Historical, Danger, Closed Minded

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• I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

  Dolly Parton

  Gay, People, Childhood

  "Dolly Parton Speaks Out On Gay Marriage" By Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2014.

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• There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.

  Christina Aguilera

  Boys, Danger, Charm

  Song: Candyman, Album: Back to Basics, 2006

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• Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

  James Cook

  Religious, Criminals, Danger

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