Doomed Quotes - Page 9

• One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Flower, Past, Reality

  Aleksandar Hemon (2010). “Love and Obstacles”, p.155, Pan Macmillan

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• Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Strong, Powerful, Long

  Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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• The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Race, Intelligence, Doe

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• A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

  Charlie Munger

  Failing, Rely, Models

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• Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

  Peter Senge

  Years, People, Majority

  "Learning for a Change". Interview with Alan M. Webber, www.fastcompany.com. April 30, 1999.

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• I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

  John Cusack

  Love Life, Fate, Talking

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• We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind' appearances; yet at the same time their quest was doomed to fail, for all universals break down as soon as the Creator, He who made man in His image, is denied or left out of account.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Art, Greatness, Men

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• If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

  Shirley Conran

  Dare, Dullness, Ifs

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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

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• I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then I could! If I pictured myself published, then it was going to happen! Which sounded great, except...could I do it? If I didn't think I could, was I doomed to fail? What if I was almost totally sure I would fail? I am here to tell you-what matters is sticking with it.

  Holly Black

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space. For the simple fact of the matter is, the planet Earth is doomed... Let us follow many environmentalists and regard the Earth as Gaia, the mother of all life (which indeed she is). Gaia, like all mothers, is not immortal. She is going to die. But her line of descent might be immortal. . . . Gaia's children might never die out-provided they move into space. The Earth should be regarded as the womb of life-but one cannot remain in the womb forever.

  Frank J. Tipler

  Mother, Children, Moving

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• Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Engineering, Community, Failing

  "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.

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• We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.

  Marco Rubio

  America, Century, Decline

  "Rubio eyes 'a new American century'" by Scot Wong, www.politico.com. June 14, 2011.

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• There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Pain, Grief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

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• If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

  Lisa Delpit

  Children, School, People

  Lisa Delpit (2012). “"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children”, p.23, New Press, The

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• If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Relationship, Fate, Expecting

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• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  Irwin Shaw

  Fate, Artist, America

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• I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

  Marguerite Young

  Fate, Men, Born

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• One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.

  Rob Sheffield

  Uplifting, Liars, Rocks

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• Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Sacrifice, Immigration

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• In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

  Juan Williams

  College, Florida, Worst Case Scenario

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• The night before Atlantis sank beneath the waves forever, the members of the MysterySchool set sail from their doomed continent in twelve boats, headed for twelve different points on the globe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Night, Forever, Atlantis

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Crazy, Spring, Passion

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Past, Failing, Stomping

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• As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure.

  Nelson Mandela

  Meaningful, Thinking, Long

  "The ultimate male feminist? 5 things Nelson Mandela did for women" by Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

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