Dan Simmons book The Rise of Endymion
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 3 (p. 49)
Clary and Jace, pg. 313
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
Context: "Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside the dryer with the clothes," Clary said. "The difference is, she didn't let me."
"Probably because going around and around inside a dryer can be fatal," Jace pointed out, "whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it."
Dan Simmons book The Rise of Endymion
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 3 (p. 49)
“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”
George Orwell book Down and Out in Paris and London
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 9; a remark by Boris
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
“Make haste; delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.”
Tolle moras: semper nocuit differre paratis.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book I, line 281 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.”
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Source: A&P: Lust in the Aisles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Terminus http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20600&c=323 <br class="br">1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
“Commerce unites men and make them; therefore it is fatal to despotic power.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's War Maxims: With His Social and Political Thoughts (1804-15), Gale & Polden, (1899) p. 150
“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray