Catastrophe Quotes

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

Ill never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.

The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

We have come so far. It's become a real bipartisan cause, which I'm very happy to see. And in the case of America, and it's - certainly, without America, we'd be facing catastrophe.

The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

I'll tickle his catastrophe.

The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.

There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

When I saw from Rome that catastrophe (brought by Yolanda) I had to be here. And on those very days I decided to come here. I am here to be with you – a little bit late, but I’m here.

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].

Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.