#fatal

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #both #failure #fatal #good

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. ↗

— David Brin

#been #both #both sides #contact #encounter

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#been #exciting #expected #fatale #femme

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. ↗

— Giorgio de Chirico

#butterflies #catches #common #distraction #fatal

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#continue #counts #courage #failure #fatal

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood. ↗

— Glenn Close

#audiences #behavior #blood #demanded #fatal

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still. ↗

— John Fletcher

#angels #fatal #good #ill #our

That fatal drollery called a representative government. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#fatal #government #representative

Inquiry is fatal to certainty. ↗

— Will Durant

#fatal #inquiry

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#any #arranged #collected #could #delay