Top 99 Doomed Quotes

Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand’s collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve.

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

If we’re constantly giving every one of our allies the woke test instead of inviting them to be more woke, we’re doomed. You can be the most woke person of all time and be alone.

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.

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.

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.

Surely being a Professional Beauty – let alone an ageing one – is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

Without Ukraine, Dugin’s fascist Eurasian Union project is impossible, and sooner or later, Russia itself will have to join the West and become free, leaving only a few despised and doomed islands of tyranny around the globe.

It’s possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don’t appreciate how tough your elders had it. It’s true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

Ideas are nothing. They’re irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you’re doomed. The reality is if you don’t like one idea, I’ve got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can – great; I get to play a terrific game.

When I meet gay kids and they know who we are, I remember that’s amazing because literally every gay person in every gay story I knew growing up was doomed to die. There weren’t any positive gay stories and it’s incredible that has changed.

There’s no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it’s doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest.

The boy taught from infancy to be tough is emotionally doomed.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

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’m doomed romantically. I try to find a formula for everything in life, and that includes romance, but my methods haven’t proven successful because there is no formula in romance.

Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

If you’re an artist and you’re on Twitter, you are doomed to mediocrity.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective – at best.

We must begin to tell black women’s stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or anyone else in this country. The story of black women is critical because those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it.

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.

Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.

I do not want to belong to cinema history. I am a woman – I know I’m doomed anyway.

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.

Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft’s doomed towns or Shirley Jackson’s lonely, looming ‘The Haunting of Hill House,’ the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn’t have felt more removed.

That was devastating to me: how a bright, energetic kid could turn doomed and desperate.

Every day it seems more likely that we are destined – or should one say doomed? – to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.

I think in a way, you’re doomed, once you can envision something. You’re sort of doomed to make it happen. I’ve found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that’s usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

A dysfunctional team means a dysfunctional – and likely doomed – company.

Peter Crouch has been my hero for fifteen years, Maya Jama is a superstar and I am a mild-mannered bandleader with a motley troupe of absurdly talented musicians at my disposal – if those aren’t the ingredients for a delicious post-football entertainment dish then we’re all doomed.

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.

Some unifying principles bind all Christians: that God became a man and died for our sins, and that without that sacrifice, all of us would be doomed.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

If we dismiss childcare or work-life balance as soft, or Labour issues, then we dismiss the main concerns of millions of people, especially women. A party that behaves like this is doomed to remain the voice of a third of the population.

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you’re doomed right off.

When expectations are really high, you’re doomed.

All my films are, in some way, romances. But I’ve always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.

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.

I’ve seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they’re talking about.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?

I didn’t have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn’t know any gay people until I began doing theater.

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me – any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there’s some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You’re making it too complicated.

I realized that the way most people were going about protein engineering was doomed failure.

When you come from a family of storytellers, you’re doomed. You just have to tell stories.

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.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.