Doom Quotes
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Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
Eugene Ionesco -
Going by the game stats we give up another big inning. Walks and timely hitting by them pretty well spelled doom for us. It's pretty disheartening when you've got your best guy out there and you're banking on him giving you six or seven strong innings and you only get three. We just feel like he was forced out of the game early with walks. I won't say with control, I'll say with walks.
Vance Law
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Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
M. John Harrison -
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
Simon Beaufoy -
I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.
Raghuram Rajan -
My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.
Charlotte Bronte -
All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.
Chris Matthews -
I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
Mikhail Lermontov
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After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.
Nicholas Mosley -
I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.
Christina Aguilera -
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
William Shakespeare -
Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.
Lajos Kossuth -
Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.
Vladimir Nabokov
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More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
Sophocles -
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
William Dean Howells -
The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom, and then coming back the next year.
Alex Scally Beach House -
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay
William S. Burroughs -
The 'Doom' thing is to be able to come at things with a different point of view. I decided the mask would just add to the mystique of the character as well as make Doom stand out. I though it'd be an easy way for people to see and differentiate between characters, sorta like when an actor gains weight for a role.
MF DOOM
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It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.
Thomas Sowell -
He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.
Emily Dickinson -
The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
Adolf Hitler -
“The All Blacks that day looked like great prophets of doom.”
Bill McLaren