Ominous Quotes
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The great hulking eminence of the stone-age mound stood out as an ominous dark shadow.
stephen r. lawhead— p. 162 (The Bone House (2011))
Under the tricolor, long khaki files of them Through the Étoile, down the Champs Elysées Marched, while grisettes blew their kisses to miles of them, And only the old brushed the tear stains away Out where the crows spread their ominous pinions Shadowing France from Nancy to Fay, Singing they marched 'gainst the Kaiser's gray minions, Singing the song of boyhood at play.
— Charles Law Watkins, The Boys who never grew up, To the Foreign Legion, written on the Somme (Dec., 1916).
For today, the women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.
harry blackmun— U.S. Supreme Court, in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989).
A feeling generally exists that the condition and disposition of the Working Class is a rather ominous matter at present; that something ought to be said, something ought to be done, in regard to it.
thomas carlyle— 1839 Chartism, ch.1.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
George Sandys— 1913 Winds of Doctrine,'Modernism and Christianity'.
...even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large numbers. ... he is only minimally interested in the proper intellectual significance of images and objects. Such people are not really intellectuals, but visuals ... A visual is more interested in style than in content ... A visual does not feel a rioting crowd being machine-gunned by the police, he simply sees a brilliant news photograph.
john fowles— The Aristos (1964)
Mistress of the Indies, Spain swarmed with beggars. Yet, verging to decay, she had an ominous and appalling strength. Her condition was that of an athletic man penetrated with disease, which had not yet unstrung the thews and sinews formed in his days of vigor.
francis parkman— Pt. I, Ch. 2
For today, the women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.
— Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court, in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989).
