Mistakes aren't fatal; they are merely the portals of discovery.
It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.
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.
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.
Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.
Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
A fatal recovery from a promising illness
Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
Here in the United States, we're consumed by our love of money and status. We think bigger is better, and if we can just get that promotion, all will be well with our souls. There's one fatal flaw to this mindset: it's all smoke and mirrors.
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.
Self-complacen cy is fatal to progress.
Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.
I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But he has never learned very well how to live with himself. The values he has created have been predominantly materialistic; his spiritual values have lagged far behind. He has demonstrated little spiritual genius and has made little progress toward the realization of human brotherhood. In the contemporary atomic age, this could prove man's fatal weakness.
Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man. . . , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.