Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.
You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
Fear is the fatal killer of desire.
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up into a bigger conception feeds and enriches society; every difference which is ignored feeds on society and eventually corrupts it.
What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal.
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive.
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is a process of discovery. We are looking for the meaning of life. No matter where you are, there are conflicts and dramas everywhere. It is the process of what it means to be a human being; how you react and are reacted upon, these inward and outer pressures. If you are writing with a direct cause in mind, you are writing propaganda. It's fatal for a fiction writer.
Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?
Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.
Thy fatal shafts unerring move; I bow before thine altar, Love!
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.
No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.