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.
One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.
Mistakes aren't fatal; they are merely the portals of discovery.
Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.
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.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Many a healthy reaction has proved fatal.
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.
There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.
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 fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.
There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.