A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Roberto Burle Marx

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
Gustav Mahler

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
Bruce Henderson

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.
John Haggai

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
Max Frisch

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
Al Goldstein

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
Phyllis Schlafly

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
Neil Gaiman

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
John McCarthy

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

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.
Michael Palin

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.
Lisa Kudrow

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
Mike Tyson

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
Marguerite Young

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.
John Cusack