Zitat des Tages über Verurteilt / Doomed:
You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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.
If the FBI is now in charge of bad taste, we're all doomed.
I don't - you know, I'm very disillusioned with our political system. If we don't wake up in America and realize that we have to vote out of our courage and integrity for candidates who reflect our own beatitudes, and not the beatitudes of the war machine and the corporations, we are - we're doomed.
I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.
I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to hang on to their patrimony as agribusiness moves in. But these stereotypes are misleading.
We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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.
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
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.
If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
The intention that naturally exists: 'My intention is to get done with this commute.' So I've just doomed myself to an hour of discomfort, because my intention will not be met until I get out of the car.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.'
The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Everyone wonders why I talk junk, but I was doomed from the beginning.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
