Doomsday Quotes

We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either by an automatic device … or by a pre-programmed president who, whether he knows it or not, will be carrying out orders written years before by some operations analyst.

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

I’ve always heard the same doomsday concerns and yet, every day, there are people going to a classical concert for the first time – whether it’s on a date or being dragged there by their grandmother.

If she lives till doomsday, she’ll burn a week longer than the whole world.

What’s the news?
None, my lord, but that the world’s grown honest,
Then is doomsday near.

We had the same doomsday people when we were building the MGM Grand, same people, same doomsday. You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ’cause it’s life or death for real.

That doomsday idea is in everybody’s subconscious.

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

I don’t know if we will really have a doomsday for human beings, but if we did, to me, it wouldn’t be an unjust outcome, given how many species we’re taking with us every year.

One of the things that all religions have is a narrative of doomsday. There has to be some kind of overarching fear of the future. If there wasn’t, none of the religions could invoke this important thing – that science has no evidence of, by the way – called free will.

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn’t so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.

I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything’s a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is – if it doesn’t get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails.

Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world’s attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

You think they could stop putting these experts on the news with their doomsday scenarios of how the terrorists might attack us? Because you get the sense they’re coming up with ideas that these people haven’t thought of themselves.

There appears to be a lot of confusion about the biological benefits of elevated CO2 because the popular media typically fails to report them. Doomsday scenarios of global warming are much more dramatic than the good news of global greening.

When TV came, people said who will go to theatres to watch movies? When the Internet came, they said the same. And now it’s the digital media… The doomsday predictions are always there but I don’t think people will stop going to cinema halls because that is one experience you can’t get at home.

Sadie Kane here. If you’re listening to this, congratulations, you survived doomsday.

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

If that doomsday scenario happens, will it help if you have heaps of paper money? I don’t think so.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.