#doom

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

— Beverly Sills

#doomed #fail #may #try #you

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. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#anybody #anymore #back #call #calls

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality. ↗

— Hermann Minkowski

#doomed #fade #henceforth #independent #into

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#around #dissatisfied #doom #gave #i

She frowned. “I did nothing to arouse you.” He clenched his jaw, his stare growing more aggressive. “You breathed. ↗

— Shayla Black

#doomsday-brethren #ice #love #sabelle #love

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#doomed-to-repeat-it #history #humor #paraphrased #humor

Become a part of me, as I become a part of you. And ever after, I promise myself to thee. Each day we share, I shall be honest, good, and true. If this you seek, heed my Call. From this moment on, there is no other for me but you ↗

— Shayla Black

#love #mate #oath #love

Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. You have to expose who you are so that you can determine what you need to become. ↗

— Cynthia A. Patterson

#inspirational #inspirational

I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#doom #gift #inspirational #lord-of-the-rings #mortality

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#advance #assure #disappoint #doomed #failure