Doomsday Quotes - Page 2

• Sadie Kane here. If you're listening to this, congratulations, you survived doomsday.

  Rick Riordan

  Congratulations, Listening, Sadie

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• It is the fear of death - 24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Death, White, Forever

  "The Death of American Exceptionalism - and of Me" by Lewis Lapham, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2013.

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• As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.

  Thomas Frank

  Trying, Watches, Three

  "Wrecking, Wrecking, Wrecked" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2008.

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• For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Believe, Reality

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• We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either by an automatic device ... or by a pre-programmed president who, whether he knows it or not, will be carrying out orders written years before by some operations analyst.

  Herbert York

  Determination, Knowledge, Science

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• If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.

  Rick Riordan

  Congratulations, Earthquakes, Snakes

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

  Steven Pinker

  War, Believe, People

  "History and the Decline of Human Violence". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work - to wake people up.

  Catherine Booth

  Song, Sweet, Prayer

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• I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest vigorously the idea that the climate reacts like a home heating system to a changed setting of the thermostat: just turn the dial, and the desired temperature will soon be reached.

  Hendrik Tennekes

  Home, Numbers, Sea

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• There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending progress with millenarianistic overtones and on the other hand the doomsday expectation of the final battle of Armageddon. Both are perspectives are uniquely American and both are inter-related.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Optimistic, Hands, Land

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• The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed

  R. D. Laing

  Reality, People, Labels

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• Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Real, Focus, Environmental

  Gregg Easterbrook (1995). “A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism”, Viking Press

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• Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Joseph Farah

  Air, Self, Hot

  Joseph Farah (2007). “Stop the Presses!: The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution”, p.151, WND Books

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• Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life with candor, wit, and an unsparing eye for the perfect detail. Brilliant.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Eye, Perfect, Details

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• I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Ideas, Long, People

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• We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

  Michael Crichton

  Needs, Spheres, Fantasy

  Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• I don't think I can really believe in doomsday; I could hardly believe in rewards and punishments, in heaven or hell. As I wrote down in one of my sonnets - I seem to be always plagiarizing, imitating myself or somebody else for that matter - I think I am quite unworthy of heaven or of hell, and even of immortality.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Believe, Thinking, Punishment

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You can make records from now 'til doomsday, and there are something like 50,000 records released every year, but the public gets to hear very few of these. They just won't know. They might be great records, but how in the world is the public supposed to find out about them?

  Ry Cooder

  Years, Records, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We had the same doomsday people when we were building the MGM Grand, same people, same doomsday. You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

  Kirk Kerkorian

  Encouragement, People, Listening

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• It is clear that we cannot go up another two orders of magnitude as we have climbed the last five. If we did, we should have two scientists for every man, woman, child, and dog in the population, and we should spend on them twice as much money as we had. Scientific doomsday is therefore less than a century distant.

  Derek J. de Solla Price

  Dog, Children, Science

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• My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once.

  Alex Kozinski

  Freedom, Mistake, Failure

  "United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit". openjurist.org. May 6, 2003.

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• When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.

  Mark Gatiss

  Keys, Years, White

  "Doctor Who: Night Terrors". TV Series, September 3, 2011.

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• I always try to convince people that there has to be a lot of material about the subject matter, so they created a couple of pieces. One is about doomsday prophecies.

  Roland Emmerich

  Couple, People, Trying

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• There appears to be a lot of confusion about the biological benefits of elevated CO2 because the popular media typically fails to report them. Doomsday scenarios of global warming are much more dramatic than the good news of global greening.

  Keith E. Idso

  Media, Confusion, News

  "CO2: Villain Or Friend? An Exclusive Interview With Keith E. Idso". Interview with Bonner Cohen, www.heartland.org. January 1, 1999.

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• That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Blue, Nudge Nudge, People

  Eugene H. Peterson (1999). “Stories of Jesus: From the Text of the Message”, Navpress Publishing Group

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