Doomful Quotes & Sayings

Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity. — Charles A. Beard

I don't want players coming in from the college level that are either trying to avoid a suspension, declare themselves ineligible on their own, hire an agent and decide, 'I'm going to enter into the NFL.' — Roger Goodell

The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self. — William Howard Taft

You couldn't find your dick in the dark, you scheming, sleaze-mongering scumwad. — Nenia Campbell

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore

The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes. — Frank Schaeffer

New worlds need a Columbus, and the social Columbus is always a man with sufficient daring to stand by original convictions. Therefore I say that human progress is only made possible by not taking the world as we find it; and that he is the best friend of collective progress who is the most obedient not to collective convention, but to individual insight. — William James Dawson

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul. — Ann Voskamp

Teenagers are obviously God's punishment for having sex in the first place. — Kathy Lette

I've also done things that put me in odd situations. — Lily King

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook. — Mario Giacomelli