Ominous Quotes - Page 1

Thou ominous and fearful owl of death.
William Shakespeare / Poet
Death
Ominous
Owl
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Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.
Laozi / Philosopher
Filling
Ominous
Taoism
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Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?
Jenna Morasca / Actress
Ominous
Rooms
Waiting
Waiting Rooms
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I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.
Daniel Dae Kim / Actor
Ominous
Real
Real Life
Thinking
Life Real Real Life
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Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
America
Artist
Management
Materialism
North America
Ominous
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I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.
Valerie Plame / Author
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Ominous
Terrorism
Threat
Weapons
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The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.
Philip Schultz / Poet
Ominous
Unforgiving
Carries
Encountered
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
James Thurber / Cartoonist
Comedy
Ominous
Past
Sound
Anybody
Armchair
Attic
Guess
Present
Ticking
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Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.
Colleen Mccullough / Author
Age
Ominous
Phenomenon
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I think doing The Improv is a little more ominous than doing a college campus because it was so different than anything I'd done.
Mick Foley / Professional Wrestler
Campus
Ominous
Done Doing Anything
Improv
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Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.
James Salter / Novelist
Cases
Ominous
Every Nation
Superior
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The computer has always been this ominous, scary thing that came into music, for me, in the early '90s, right when I first started playing music.
Tim Commerford /
Ominous
Music Me Always
Scary Thing
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It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.
Mohamed Elbaradei / Diplomat
Iraq
Ominous
Uranium
Weapons
Would Be
Abroad
Enriched
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I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.
Dylan Mcdermott / Actor
War
Ominous
Terrified
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Draft
Trickle
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Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
Jose Saramago / Writer
Fragility
Intensity
Ominous
Terrible
World
Life World Rest
Discovered
Experienced
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My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
Eric Stonestreet / Actor
Backdrop
Bunch
Childhood
Ominous
Retail
Sitting
Prisons
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The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.
P. J. O'rourke / Satirist
Data
Hush
Labyrinth
Mysterious
Ominous
Replaced
Cheap
Glow
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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
Cordell Hull / Former United States Secretary Of State
War
Air
Breathe
Circumstances
Existence
Ominous
Second World War
Shadow
Life War Peace
Attendant
Cast
Essential
Second
World Peace
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Broadchurch' was very naturalistically shot, in many respects, whereas 'Dublin Murders' has a slightly heightened element cinematically, because there is a supernatural, ominous quality - particularly in the woods.
Killian Scott /
Dublin
Ominous
Woods
Element
Many Respects
Respects
Supernatural
Whereas
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Thomas Sowell / Economist
Freedom
Government
Ease
Libertarian Party
Long
Ominous
People
Should
Like
Government Long People
Freedom Government People
Freedom Long People
Go
Very
Freedom Government Long
Down
Expect
Forbid
Some
Road
Saying
Some People
Survive
To Survive
Which
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Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.
David Horsey /
Cyberspace
Evil
Late
Monsters
Ominous
Produce
Too Late
Universe
Good Great Evil
Contains
Created
Dimension
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President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.
Pat Buchanan / Former Assistant To The President For Communications
Foreign Policy
Ominous
Presidency
Renunciation
Seeming
Surprise
Consume
Mandate
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Every true-crime thing you see goes in with that kind of ominous music and low lighting, so to be able to talk about these things but not have to feel somber about it and not feel guilty that you're not feeling somber about it - I think that's what appeals to me.
Karen Kilgariff /
Appeals
Guilty
Lighting
Ominous
Somber
Music Me Feel
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As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.
Lynn Coady / Novelist
Experience
Bird
Couple
Lying
Middle
Night
Ominous
Tired
Wake Up
Across
Battles
Begun
Chest
Dead
Novelist
Sensation
Pick
Plucked
Syndrome
Tunnel
Wake
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When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.
Joseph B. Wirthlin / Businessman
Depression
Dinner
Great Depression
Ominous
Scarce
Appear
Deacon
Held
Mothers
Signs
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
Young People
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The worsening of relations between a declining America and an internally troubled Mexico could even give rise to a particularly ominous phenomenon: the emergence, as a major issue in nationalistically aroused Mexican politics, of territorial claims justified by history and ignited by cross-border incidents.
Zbigniew Brzezinski / Former National Security Advisor
Claims
Emergence
Incidents
Justified
Mexican
Mexico
Ominous
Phenomenon
Territorial
Rise
Aroused
Declining
Particularly
Major
Issue
Relations
Troubled
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My first AIDS campaign was in 1985. There was this dark cloud, everybody was socially inspired - we hadn't seen social consciousness like that since the '60s - but most people were talking about hunger in Africa. Nobody was talking about this really ominous circumstance here in the U.S. because of this fear of stigma.
Kenneth Cole / Clothing Designer
Aids
Consciousness
Hunger
Ominous
Stigma
Circumstance
Cloud
Socially
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