Fatality Quotes

• The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.

  Ernest Becker

  Death, Destiny, Men

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

  Jon Gordon

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Nov 30, 2015

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• Fatality makes us invisible.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Invisible

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• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

  Arsene Houssaye

  Genius, Providence, Manifestation

  Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.107

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• When England go to Turkey there could be fatalities - or even worse, injuries.

  Phil Neal

  Football, Turkeys, England

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• The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Lying, Opportunity, Night

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• All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

  Albert Camus

  Fate, Men, Joy

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

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• Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.102, B&H Publishing Group

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• Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.

  Michel Foucault

  Sex, Gay, Our World

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• Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

  Albert Camus

  Joy, Liberty, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

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• The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign.

  Mark Rosenker

  Hopeful, Disappointing, Increase

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• They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Intelligent, World, Blind

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

  Walter Scott

  Storm, Driving, Blind

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The waverly novels”, p.595

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• In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.

  Paul Davies

  Dog, Garden, Rocks

  Paul Davies (2015). “The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Children, Home, Gun

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• 92 people are killed every single day in car fatalities. What if we filmed every one of them? No one would drive cars.

  Greg Gutfeld

  People, Car, What If

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Moral High Ground, Giving

  "Raging from the moral highground" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2000.

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• The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that tends toward obsession and brooding, that works against fatality like fingers at a knot. The firm, attentive mind on display and the lucid unfolding of the poems are the life instinct seeking and finding its way through again and again. Love and beauty are the argument, but they don't win easily. Bloom in Reverse works through elegy toward survival with moving persistence, both driven and compelling.

  Tony Hoagland

  Moving, Dark, Winning

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• Plutonium is so hazardous that if you had a fully developed nuclear economy with breeder reactors fueled with plutonium, and you managed to contain the plutonium 99.99 percent perfectly, it would still cause somewhere between 140,000 and 500,000 extra lung-cancer fatalities each year.

  John Gofman

  Cancer, Years, Causes

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• People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had stayed at the 1990 level, that's 122 million families.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

  Mathieu Kerekou

  Poverty

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• Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Action, Providence

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• What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, May, Way

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• There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment.

  Patrick Bedard

  Government, Alcohol, Congress

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