#doom

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge. ↗

— Max Frisch

#doomed #final #man #refuge

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#always #anybody #between #came #close

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.' ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#brilliant #catch #consider #doomed #earth

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain. ↗

— Bill Joy

#doom #extend #lack #probably #ultimately

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common? ↗

— Donald Justice

#common #doom #how #i #ours

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person. ↗

— Daryn Kagan

#day #doom #fit #gloom #i

We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#based #doomed #ideas #live #more

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#compared #competed #does #doom #had

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#deny #doomed #free #generally #girl

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.' ↗

— Chris Ware

#carver #comics #confidence #connect #connor