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I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life. -- Daniel Dae Kim
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. -- Arthur Erickson
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. -- James Thurber
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
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
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
People just... disappear," he says. "The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex. "Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie." "Ominous." I nod my agreement. "It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile. -- Bret Easton Ellis
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction -- Freya Stark
Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them. -- Laozi
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned -- George Santayana
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. -- Colleen McCullough
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it. -- Laozi
You can't afford to make the shark look good so you do most of it with ominous music and a fin. -- Jim Howick
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen. -- Grover Cleveland
If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers. -- Camille Paglia
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. -- Elizabeth Kim
Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. -- Gore Vidal
But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence. -- Jeannette Walls
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can. -- M. John Harrison
I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political power, nor that the ominous tyranny of the wise would ever come so close to being realised in the political life of a great nation like the United States. But fear is the greatest ally of tyranny. -- Shadia Drury
In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think what they esteem in America is character and energy, and being different and superior to other peoples. Of course, 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
Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous? -- Jenna Morasca
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
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
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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
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
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
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
Filling life exceedingly is called ominous. -- Laozi
"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention. -- Josip Novakovich
The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations. -- Mervyn Peake
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long. -- Laozi
...and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky... -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous. -- John Ashbery
I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange. -- Tracy Kidder
William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke. -- Willa Cather
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo. -- John Dewey
The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms. -- Jim Thompson
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night. -- Daniel J. Rice
The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...Dead silence.Literally dead. -- Simona Panova
To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict. -- Hans Blix
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous. -- Victor Hugo
What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And it is really, really bad, -- George Takei
The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places. -- Suzanne Collins
There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops. -- Jonathan Lethem
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot. -- Lawrence Durrell

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