Fatal

Famous quotes containing the word fatal:

“Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the victim, a man named Watkins, peering through the iron bars of his cell, and seeing the townfolk scurrying to the place of execution, is said to have remarked, ‘Why is everyone running? Nothing can happen until I get there.’”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“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.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)