Doomed Quotes

The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is doomed from the start is the one we do not attempt.

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

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

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.

Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

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

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve

Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at a discount to liquidation value.

In summary, our world is doomed.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.

If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.

It may all end tomorrow, or it could go on forever (in which case I'm doomed).

Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth.

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

The earth is definitely doomed.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

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

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.