Fatality Quotes - Page 2

• Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.

  Steve Irwin

  Years, Australia, Crocodiles

  Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin (2002). “The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin”, p.221, Penguin

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• There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

  Oscar Wilde

  Too Late, Resolution, Made

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.269, Harvard University Press

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• PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political, Black, Politics

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.182, University of Georgia Press

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• Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Passion, Order

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• My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US).

  John Gofman

  Cancer, Dark, Years

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• One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he meant was, you have to plan every operation You cannot ever be casual You have to realize that any operation is a potential fatality.

  Joseph Murray

  Science, Errors, Giants

  "A Conversation With: Joseph E. Murray; On Surgical Innovation And The Questions It Can Raise". Interview With Cornelia Dean, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2001.

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• I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation, fatality, and could only end one way now. The present was numbness, that could feel nothing. Like Novocaine needled into your heart. What was there in all the dimensions of time for me? ("Life Is Weird Sometimes" first chapter of unpublished novel THE LOSER)

  Cornell Woolrich

  Heart, Past, Numbness

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• The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, Lessons, Certain

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.163, GENERAL PRESS

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• But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Feelings, Events, Ghost

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 5 (1850)

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• Paris, the FedEx deliveryman of Pleasure and Fatality.

  Gena Showalter

  Paris, Pleasure

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.142, HQN Books

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• I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Kissing, Loving You, Feelings

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”, p.92, Penguin UK

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• But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Light, Knowing

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• If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

  Jasper Fforde

  Laughing, Survival, Cracks

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• On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

  Jules Verne

  Clouds, Sky, Mountain

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From the Earth to the Moon”, p.135, Jules Verne

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• For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

  Thomas Mann

  Positive, Simple, Endurance

  Thomas Mann (1965). “Death in Venice”

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• If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force.

  Ehud Barak

  Fighting, Israel, Use

  "German man killed in renewed Israeli assault". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2000.

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• An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Team, Law

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• Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality supportive care are followed, the case fatality rate for Ebola may be lower than 20 percent.

  Paul Farmer

  Medicine, Ebola, Supportive

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• Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.

  William Schaffner

  Moving, Doctors, Ebola

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• The supportive care that we're able to provide in the United States is so much better, so much more sophisticated, than what's available in West Africa. ... So we can move that needle of survival way down. Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.

  William Schaffner

  Moving, Doctors, Ebola

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• There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Sterling W Sill

  Motivational, Men, Resolution

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• There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.

  Don Andrews

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

  Mathieu Kerekou

  Poverty, Should, Humiliation

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• 9/11 was just an enormous event in so many senses of the word - I mean, we are still in the "post-9/11 era" and perhaps will be forever? Sometimes it seems like it. It was such a monstrous act of imagination over anything else - the actual fatalities, while awful, were not what distinguished the event from others.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Mean, Imagination, Forever

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.

  William James

  Philosophy, Order, Medicine

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