Fatal Quotes - page 4

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood. (Glenn Close)
Evolution is all about processes that almost never happen. Every birth in every lineage is a potential speciation event, but speciation almost never happens, not once in a million births. Mutation in DNA almost never happens - not once in a trillion copings - but evolution depends on it. Take the set of infrequent accidents - things that almost never happen - and sort them into the happy accidents, the neutral accidents, and the fatal accidents; amplify the effects of the happy accidents - which happens automatically when you have replication and competition - and you get evolution.
Daniel Dennett
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
Carson McCullers
Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.
Henry Walter Bates
The sword of Mahomet and the Coran are the most fatal enemies of civilization, liberty, and truth which the world has yet known.
William Muir
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.
Booth Tarkington
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Shula
It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
Ed Markey
The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.
Edward M. Lerner
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.
Florence Kelley
I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal. (Graham Kennedy)
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
Jenny Holzer
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
Keith Henson
People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.
Melina Kanakaredes
It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
Stirling Moss
M. Perrier found that their exposure to the dry air of a room for only a single night was fatal to them. On the other hand he kept several large worms alive for nearly four months, completely submerged in water.
Charles Darwin
Contracting a fatal disease.
John McCain
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
John Updike
I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
Dorothy L. Sayers
I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.
Evelyn Waugh
Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it's time for me to go to bed. (Evelyn Waugh)
Work is motion, but our own. We have the fatal possibility to emulate another, for example a millwheel.
Ludwig Hohl
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
Harry S. Truman
Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.
John Quincy Adams
Don't say that I don't mix with the common people, Joe; I sell used 'copters for a living. You can't get any commoner. And don't imply that my heart is not with them. We are not like them, but we are tied to them by the strongest bond of all, for we are all, each every one, sickening with the same certainly fatal disease-we are alive.
Robert A. Heinlein